Justin Wilson Gourmet and Gourmand Cookb

By Justin Wilson

He looks like a Southern colonel or someone you might have met on a riverboat who wanted to teach you this new game, "poker." The face is handsome, the eyebrows dance when he talks.

It is when he talks that you know you've never met anyone quite like him. He's an original, one of a kind, and thousands upon thousands of people have laughed as they never laughed before when he tells his stories-tales about the the most unique people who inhabitthe our earth, the great Cajuns of South Louisiana.

. . . he is also an artist when it comes to cooking. He can work the same magic with fish and fowl, with vegetables and fruit, as he can with language.

He loves to cook. His mission in life seems to be to make people enjoy life, to make them laugh, and to make them eat.(From the foreword by Gus Weill)

In this tasty collection, the world's foremost Cajun humorist and acclaimed gourmet chef shares recipes that will stimulate the most jaded taste buds. Sure to be a favorite with old and new Justin Wilson fans alike, The Justin Wilson Gourmet and Gourmand Cookbook combines Justin Wilson's "ga-ron-teed to please" recipes with a liberal sprinkling of his Cajun humor and forty-nine color photographs. Many of the recipes on Justin's PBS show are featured.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pelican Publishing
• Release date: Jul 30, 1984
• ISBN: 9781455606924

Justin Wilson

During his lifetime, Justin Wilson was much more than a Louisianan chef. In fact, for much of his life, he didn't consider himself a chef. Wilson was the first to say that he was a Cajun cook-not a chef. He was a humorist-not a comedian-who appeared on television programs across the country, including The Tonight Show. Born in 1914, Wilson started his career as a safety engineer, who traveled across the state to give lectures to refinery workers. During these lectures, Wilson realized that he had a talent for telling Cajun humor, and from there, his career as a humorist grew. Wilson appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show and began to tell stories and cook Cajun cuisine for a living. Wilson learned much of what he knew about cooking from his Cajun mother. He took that knowledge, developed his personal cooking style, and helped to pioneer the Cajun food craze that caught the country by storm when he appeared at the ABA in 1974. Politically active, Justin Wilson became one of Louisiana's most iconic men in the twentieth century. He spent more than three decades producing cookbooks, entertaining people of all ages with his jokes, and teaching people from Los Angeles to New York how to cook Cajun. His twenty-seven comedy albums have charmed audiences everywhere, at one point even outselling Elvis Presley! Wilson died in 2001 in Pike County, Mississippi.

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