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Celebrity chef-restaurateur

Emeril Lagasse

$7.2 million*

Getting paid to eat? It doesn’t get better that that. Hosting a cooking show on the Food Network, running his nine restaurants, authoring almost a dozen cookbooks and selling a signature line of cookware, Emeril presumably has no time to indulge. But somehow the Fall River, Mass., native finds the energy keep growing his French-accented culinary empire.

*(Source: Salary.com)

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