Television Chef who is now deceased?!
Television Chef who is now deceased?
My husband is going nuts trying to remember the name of an elderly cajun chef who used to be on television and supposedly used a lot of cayenne pepper in his dishes. He says that this guy is dead now. I have no clue. Does anybody have any idea who he is thinking of?
Answers:
Justin Wilson
Justin E. Wilson (April 24, 1914 - September 5, 2001) was a southern American chef and humorist known for his brand of Cajun cuisine-inspired cooking and humor. He was a self-styled "raconteur extraordinaire and goodwill ambassador of the Louisiana Cajun."
Wilson was born in Roseland in Tangipahoa Parish, one of the "Florida Parishes" east of Baton Rouge. He began his career as a safety engineer while he traveled throughout Acadiana. His safety lectures that he made to refinery workers prompted him on the road to becoming a Cajun storyteller. He remembered it this way on the back cover of The Justin Wilson Cook Book:
He later wrote seven Cajun cookbooks and two books of Cajun stories. He hosted a cooking show on American public television that combined Cajun cooking and Cajun humor. He was known for the catchphrase, "I gar-own-tee!".
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