[Sca-cooks] The passing of a cook

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Sue Clemenger wrote:
> Sorry to display my <obvious> ignorance, but who's Justin Wilson?
> --Maire, just back from a really _lonnnnnggggg_ SCA weekend...

Justin Wilson was (is?) an ancient and venerable Cajun gentleman who,
among other things, brought Cajun in particular, and general Southern to
some extent, cooking to the world via a fairly famous television series.
He was kind of an old-fashioned-looking man with a gray moustache, just
a touch like a Manly Wade Wellman character, until he opened his mouth.
Generally very unpretentious: he would say things like, "I gots to see
if this yee-ah wahne is gooood. [Guzzle] Yep. It _is_ gooood. I gone put
some in this yee-ah pot. Now this yee-ah dish call for red wahne, an dat
because red wahne is dee kind of wahne dat Ah like."

Trademark Justin Wilson behavior would include sloshing alcohol of any
kind into dishes until it looked right to him (read, "plenty"), while
pretending to measure carefully [Slosh slosh slosh. "You wan add about a
quawtuh cup." Slosh slosh slosh. "Dat look about right." Slosh. "Dat
look like a quawtuh cup to you?" Slosh.]

And then, of course, he had his famous "HOOOOOOOOOO Boyyyyy! Dat eat
goooood!"

I haven't seen anything of him in years, myself, but I'll miss him anyway.

Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

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