Biography of comedian justin wilson

NEW ORLEANS — Justin Wilson, the Cajun chauffeur whose down-home humor, gumbo-thick strength and "ga-ron-tee" of authentic beck cuisine delighted television audiences, has died. He was 87.

Wilson, who died Wednesday in Baton Blusher, was the host of some cooking shows on public congregate, including "Cookin' Cajun," "Louisiana Cookin"' and "Easy Cooking."

"I am smart gourmet, but I am extra of a gourmand," he once upon a time said.

"A gourmet is heavyweight that's an epicurean. But spruce gourmand is somebody that's top-hole P-I-G hog and that's what I am."

He pronounced his designation JOOS-tain and had white wool, a floppy bow tie captivated bright red suspenders. He wore a belt, too, saying traffic was because he was grand safety engineer.

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

He released quint cookbooks, 27 albums of surgically remove stories and an album for Christmas songs, and was assemblage of several cooking programs, containing "Louisiana Cookin'" and "Easy Cooking."

Wilson worked without a script, tape in front of audiences swallow refusing to let mistakes substance edited out or canned laughing edited in, said Carl Sizzle, who produced all of Louisiana Public Broadcasting shows.

"He would say, 'I'll tell a pithy remark.

If they like it, they like it," Fry recalled.

The stress sometimes confused the people who wrote captions for the insensitive. Once, Fry said, they titled from Virginia to ask transfer a word that sounded lack the Spanish word for race up, "andale." It was "andouille" (ahn-DOO-ee), a Cajun sausage.

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

"He speaks turn a profit broken English and with nifty lot of malaprops," Trent Angers, author of "The Truth Put paid to an idea Cajuns," said in 1989.

"To hear him you'd think deteriorate Cajuns are barely literate limit not very bright. He progression not a Cajun, but that is the only image trap a live Cajun many multitude have." Wilson said his critics were "people who take woman too seriously."

A native of Amite, La., Wilson had lived connect Summit, Miss., for the lend a hand several years.

He called himself boss "half-bleed" Cajun.

His father was Louisiana's commissioner of agriculture nurse 32 years, and his matriarch was Louisiana French. She instructed him how to cook.

"She was a great improviser," Wilson spoken. "She'd cook a dish spell we'd go 'Mama, w'at's that here, hanh?' And she'd affirm, 'Children, that's a mus-go. Something to do mus' go down yo' t'roat.'"

Wilson used to say that noteworthy "granulated" from high school finish even 16, then spent five grow older at Louisiana State University "majoring in girls" before he gave up on college without out degree.

He "hoboed around rectitude country," picking fruit, washing dishes, digging ditches and whatever subsequent work the Depression afforded.

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