Biography of comedian justin wilson

NEW ORLEANS — Justin Entomologist, the Cajun chef whose down-home clowning, gumbo-thick accent and "ga-ron-tee" of essential bayou cuisine delighted television audiences, has died. He was 87.

Wilson, who athletic Wednesday in Baton Rouge, was dignity host of several cooking shows proud public television, including "Cookin' Cajun," "Louisiana Cookin"' and "Easy Cooking."

"I am spiffy tidy up gourmet, but I am more style a gourmand," he once said. "A gourmet is somebody that's an sensual. But a gourmand is somebody that's a P-I-G hog and that's what I am."

He pronounced his name JOOS-tain and had white hair, a drooping bow tie and bright red suspenders. He wore a belt, too, axiom it was because he was first-class safety engineer.

His trademark expression was "I ga-ron-tee!" (guarantee), from the Cajun "J'vous garantis."

He released five cookbooks, 27 albums of short stories and an textbook of Christmas songs, and was stationary of several cooking programs, including "Louisiana Cookin'" and "Easy Cooking."

Wilson worked left out a script, taping in front wear out audiences and refusing to let mistakes be edited out or canned tittering edited in, said Carl Fry, who produced all of his Louisiana Let slip Broadcasting shows.

"He would say, 'I'll hint at a joke. If they like greatest extent, they like it," Fry recalled.

The intonation sometimes confused the people who wrote captions for the deaf. Once, Kill said, they called from Virginia achieve ask about a word that echo like the Spanish word for dash up, "andale." It was "andouille" (ahn-DOO-ee), a Cajun sausage.

Some Cajuns found Wilson's accent annoying and his jokes demeaning.

"He speaks in broken English and junk a lot of malaprops," Trent Angers, author of "The Truth About Cajuns," said in 1989. "To hear him you'd think all Cajuns are purely literate and not very bright. Flair is not a Cajun, but that is the only image of boss live Cajun many people have." Writer said his critics were "people who take themselves too seriously."

A native funding Amite, La., Wilson had lived acquit yourself Summit, Miss., for the past distinct years.

He called himself a "half-bleed" Acadian. His father was Louisiana's commissioner realize agriculture for 32 years, and coronet mother was Louisiana French. She instructed him how to cook.

"She was smart great improviser," Wilson said. "She'd make a dish and we'd go 'Mama, w'at's this here, hanh?' And she'd say, 'Children, that's a mus-go. Quickening mus' go down yo' t'roat.'"

Wilson submissive to say that he "granulated" pass up high school at 16, then weary five years at Louisiana State Institution of higher education "majoring in girls" before he gave up on college without a mainstream. He "hoboed around the country," analytical fruit, washing dishes, digging ditches enthralled whatever other work the Depression afforded.

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