I met Justin years ago I wrote 3 stories for him and use to impersonate his acts in high school competitions. Needless to say I won first place year after year. I still tell his stories till this day. Justin you are missed but not forgotten. Steven Denoon
Thats pretty neat Steven , wouldnt have guessed. Every weekend when younger , his show was a highlight. I like my grub from all over , and the stories priceless. Him and Jerry Clower.
I really miss watching Justin Wilson on Saturday evenings with my mom who is now deceased also. Saturdays are not the same anymore without the two of them. May they both rest in peace!!! LOVE ALWAYS GMAMACAT
Justin Wilson is THE reason I love Lousiana cooking and love to make Cajun dishes at home to this day. Watched his how every day as a teen in the '70's. Huge influence on me. May he RIP
If you have love and understanding in your heart and a true sense of humor you will find him entertaining. If you don't ... well please accept my sympathy. He was a national treasure and expert in creating authentic Louisiana rural cuisine while providing witty humor that was void of vulgarity. Just a good man doing some authentic regional cooking and story telling. I liked him.
Justin was at one of my family reunions once when I was a kid (we were distant relatives somehow) and he cooked for everyone there. I'll never forget talking with him while he was cooking. RIP Justin
it started out with me watching Chef Justin cuz i'd get a kick out of his Louisiana accent and the 'wheeeeoow' ...then got interested in the Cajun cooking - but I loved his show.
He was the first person that I ever saw on a cooking show that cooked real food and he sparked a love of cooking in me with his fried turkey my oldest sister gave me his cookbook for Christmas one year and me out to be too country I treasure him and that book still today and was so disappointed when he made an appearance in Macon Ga shortly before his death and missed the chance to meet with him in person me and my daughter made his mac and cheese last week rip Juston
I watched many many Justin Wilson episodes with my grandmother who's from Garryville. I miss her. Watching these brings a tear to my eye and great memories to heart
I'm so glad this was posted. When I was a kid I'd get so drawn into his stories and the ends were so anticlimactic that THAT was the funny part. This was a classic example. 5 stars
I loved watching him as a kid back in the 80's, it was the way he talked that was so intreging and watched him up till his death. Its because of Justin Wilson that got me started in watching cooking shows.
The Mississippi Public Broadcasting System produced Justin Wilson for nationwide network distribution within PBS for many years, and the archived shows are still available for re-runs on any state's public TV station.
I had a Puerto Rican team member in the Army who learned English listening to Justin Wilson tapes and reading Conan the Barbarian comic books.Great memories I guaronteee.
My Grandma grew up during the depression in rural Iowa. During that time, a friend of her Dad came to visit, and while they were standing in the back yard talking about the garden, the friend asked (about a specific plant, or maybe the garden as a whole) how they kept the squirrels away from it. Her Dad just looked at the guy and asked "what squirrels?". They had already hunted and eaten every squirrel around just to get by.
Mr. Wilson, I know you will git this, where you are and all.. I lived with my Grandma, who cooked better than anyone I ever knew, well, I had me three squirrels I cut up. I took the back quarters of them, six in all. Laid them in the roaster pan, all seasoned up, dry rubbed, with normal red meat seasoning, but no salt. You see, my Grandma, she loved salt, and I wanted to give her or show her something different, well I give good shaking of lemon zest, dry, store bought, along with all the other seasonings but no salt. Oh, Grandma was 91 at the time. Well I put those 6 back leg and thigh squirrel pieces in the roaster with potatoes and oinions and garlic and breached em in (surrounded em with acorn squash wedges ( I prefer butternut, but, hey, squirrel..acorn..), then I drizzled a little maple syrup over it and topped it all off with some apple slices. Roasted it hot at first, then low and slow. Well, Grandma was in heaven..funny thing to say now.. but she was very happy and said to me, "Ronny, you put salt in this!", I said "no, Grandma, I used lemon zest". she said, hmph, it tastes like salt, I said, I know... Never forget that dinner! Never forget her filling up her plate for the second helping.. It's been 16 years.. I should make that again.. nope, no one around that would love it as much as she did. Mr. Wilson, tell my Grandma I miss her! iggy
Just today I said "I guaruntee" And my wife and kid looked at my like I was crazy. I Had no idea it was from a cooking show. As a kid I heard this playing records with my dad and used to listen to it often. I had to call him and ask him who it was and it tool him a few minutes to recall his name.
Justin Wilson was born in 1914 in Roseland, Lousianna and he died in Baton Rouge , Lousianna, Please !!! this man was a cooking Icon dont speak wrong words of him unless you know for sure!!!!
Taaral , thank you for posting these! The first episode I recall watching was the garlic bread episode. I agree with the other posters that food network has no clue about cooking food. Mr Wilson is the real deal. I live in the south and he is not a fake. Please post the opening and close of the show if you get time.
I miss Justin so much!& remember the ruffles commercial's also?!...he n Julia Child's are who really turned me on to cooking(now a chef /culinary grad/of course out of work,moved to Cleveland from Tonawanda,NY)my mom n I still love to joke(not to insult@ all!)and imitate him/repeat him)while we cook 2gether back home.He's a man after my own heart! Any1 know if he has any good fish(ing) stories/recipe's on youtube? I just now found this on youtube so....
He's about as cajun as Marge is from MN in Fargo, or Spicole is from LA in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, or how black Rerun is on What's Happening, etc. It's for humour. That's it. He was a safety engineer who started telling Cajun
My dad would watch/listen to Justin when I was younger. I remember I couldn't ever understand anything this man said besides "I Guarantee" but my dad always laughed.. Now that I'm older its not hard to understand him at all.
i had a friend when i was stationed in Germany that was from some swamp in Louisiana that made some of the best gumbo i ever had i dont know how true it is but he said its a high school graduation requirement to know how to make gumbo
@phil7765 Amen!! I was just talking to my sister about those series and how much we loved to watch. Nothing compares to those great shows. Natalie Dupree and so many others!
I may be wrong but I don't think Justin Wilson would classify himself as a "New Orleans Cajun". I think he would be associated with Baton Rouge rather than New Orleans (Creole)
That's great stuff. Miss that guy, but I'm sure he must have cooked himself into the grave. Used to watch his show quite often, and with the amount of butter and fat he'd cook with, I'm surprised he lived as long as he did. Thanks for posting it!!
My uncle used to hunt ducks with no gun. He would swim out to them stealthily and catch them by the feet . Necessity prompts creativity . If he had not gotten good at this technique he would likely have starved . He also hunted turle , rabbit and catfish without the " proper " tools . He would use barbed wire to hunt rabbit and would noodle for turtle and catfish . He knew herbology and foraging . Having been born in the Great Depression in what was already a poor family of Half breed sharecroppers his childhood was frought with abuse and neglect . He would disappear into the woods for safety from his father's drunken abuse . He would reappear when the old man went off to blow the family stipend on drink to feed his brothers and sisters the only meat they were likely to get . My uncle was a hardnosed guy , a ladies man and a rogue but at heart he was a loving man .
I don't think I ever heard anyone talk like Justin. Some speak similar to that up in Maine, but with less inflection, a little bit faster, and with less grammatical confusion between French and English, (if they were from Acadian background), which, I guess, Cajun is probably an extractive of Acadian. In Massachusetts, there are a lot of similarities in speech with certain regions in Louisiana. Case in point; in the West Roxbury, Roslindale, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain area, we speak differently than say, South Boston, Dorchester area, which is only 5-10 miles apart from each other. My way is close to this: (done fast) "Y'know's weird doh? Summa dem in looziana soun like dey from Boston. Y'know, nossuh tik wi da accen', like Jussin heah, buh, kina Moa nomal like widda Merican sounin accen moden French, I guess. I been afflicted widdit m'self, buh nosso badly s'mos." I spent a few years stationed in Texas, so now my Boston is mixed with a touch of the south. (Not that twangy, fake TV south.)
I grew up watching Justin Wilson and never suspected a thing. Now I read all over the internet that his accent was fake. Oh well, kinda makes me like it a lil more I guess.
+Marlin Tubbs Many people from New Orleans (not the country like Justin Wilson) have a strong Brooklyn-type accent known as 'yat. Likely because the city was settled by the same immigrant groups (Italian, etc) who came to the NE cities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It's quite odd to hear for the first time.
That's interesting James, thanks. I always find it cool when you compare accents from people from different areas. I was listening to someone the other day and thought for sure they were from the South East coastal area and then discovered they were actually from somewhere in England. Btw, I've never heard of 'yat, but will look it up.
Marlin Tubbs Cajun is a malaprop of the word Acadian . If asked their heritage by English speaking people the Cajun would say , " Me ? I am Acadian " which due to affect would sound like " Me ? I am a cajun "
Being a Texan living in a Border city with Arkansas.I get made fun of too ,with the way I talk,living in the 4 states area,I have a Mixture of Texas,Arkansas,oklahoma,and Louisana mixed into one accent.thiers never A time I dont get caLled a HIllbilly,I enjoyed Justin Wilson ,as a child in the 80;s I always watched his show
