![]() He composed ten songs, as well as composing the background music for his cooking show, and recorded one album of Christmas songs with a jazz band. He was known for the catchphrase, " I gar-on-tee!" (I guarantee).Īs a comedian, Wilson was enormously popular in Louisiana, and to a lesser degree in neighboring states, but his humor may have been a little too specifically regional to enjoy the wider popularity of Southern comics such as Jerry Clower or Archie Campbell. He later appeared as a guest on the popular CBS series The Ed Sullivan Show. He also recorded several albums for Jewel Records on the Paula label and a few for Capitol Records. Wilson later recorded several comedy albums, beginning with The Humorous World of Justin Wilson on Ember Records. So having lived all my life among the Cajuns of Louisiana, and having a good memory for the patois and the type of humor Cajuns go for, I started interspersing my talks on safety with Cajun humor. Way back when I first started as a safety engineer, I took myself pretty seriously, and I found I was putting my audiences to sleep. He remembered it this way on the back cover of The Justin Wilson Cook Book: The safety lectures that he made to refinery workers prompted him to become a Cajun storyteller. ![]() Wilson began his career as a safety engineer while he traveled throughout Acadiana. The Florida Parishes, where the family lived, were not part of the French or Spanish colonies of Louisiana. ![]() (She did, however, teach Justin how to cook.) Her surname Toadvin derives from a native of Guernsey who immigrated to Maryland circa 1675. Justin Wilson described his mother, the former Olivet Mintern Toadvin (1880–1976), as Cajun, but she has no known ancestors who either were Acadian, lived in the Cajun regions of Louisiana, or emigrated from France. His father Harry Wilson was of Welsh descent. ![]() While Wilson presented himself as Cajun in his act, it is unclear if he had any actual Acadian or French ancestry. Wilson, the Louisiana Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry from 1916 to 1948 and a former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. He was the second-youngest of seven children of Harry D. Wilson was born in Roseland near Amite, the seat of Tangipahoa Parish, one of the " Florida Parishes" of southeastern Louisiana. Justin Elmer Wilson (Ap– September 5, 2001) was a Southern American chef and humorist known for his brand of Cajun-inspired cuisine, humor and storytelling. Wilson, Louisiana Agriculture Commissioner (1869–1948)īrother-in-law Bolivar Edwards Kemp, Jr., Louisiana Attorney General (1948–1952) ![]()
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