Re: [CH] Justin Wilson
Mark McHugh (mt_mchugh@internet-stat.net)
Fri, 07 Sep 2001 14:44:04 -0500
Rob Solarion wrote:
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> Justin Wilson died on Wednesday at age 87. May he rest in peace! Roberto
I remember hearing this guy on local radio and LPB while I was
stationed down in Louisiana. He have a little wine for the jambalaya,
a little wine for Justin, a little more wine for Justin...
Here's his obit from AP:
NEW ORLEANS -- Justin Wilson, the Cajun humorist and chef whose
gumbo-thick accent and zesty recipes delighted viewers of "Cookin'
Cajun" and his other public TV shows, died Wednesday (Sept 5, 2001)
in Baton Rouge, La., at age 87. The cause of death was unknown.
Mr. Wilson was known for the expression: "I ga-ron-tee!" (guarantee)
from the Cajun "J'vous garantis."
He pronounced his name JOOS-tain and had white hair, a floppy bow
tie and bright red suspenders. He wore a belt, too, saying it was
because he was a safety engineer.
"I am a gourmet, but I am more of a gourmand," he once said. "A
gourmet is somebody that's an epicurean. But a gourmand is somebody
that's a P-I-G hog, and that's what I am."
Mr. Wilson released five cookbooks, 27 albums of short stories and an
album of Christmas songs and was host of several cooking programs,
including "Louisiana Cookin'" and "Easy Cooking."
Mr. Wilson worked without a script, taping in front of audiences and
refusing to let mistakes be edited out or canned laughter edited in,
said Carl Fry, who produced all of his Louisiana Public Broadcasting
shows.
"He would say, 'I'll tell a joke. If they like it, they like it,'"
Fry recalled.
The accent sometimes confused the people who wrote captions for the
deaf. Once, Fry said, they called from Virginia to ask about a word
that sounded like the Spanish word for hurry up, "andale." It was
"andouille" (ahn-DOO-ee), a Cajun sausage.
Mr. Wilson called himself a "half-bleed" Cajun. His father was
Louisiana's commissioner of agriculture for 32 years, and his mother
was Louisiana French. She taught him how to cook.
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Mark McHugh