[Sca-cooks] The passing of a cook

[Elaine Koogler]

NO WAY!!  Justin was generally very homey and funny.  Emeril strikes me as
being much more commercialized and repetitive!

Kiri

XvLoverCrimvX at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 9/10/01 7:25:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time, troy at asan.com
> writes:
>
> > 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!"
>
> Please don't castrate me or anything, but Justin Wilson sounds a lot like
> Emeril Lagasse (sp?).
>
> Misha
> Who ducks for the rock before getting pelted with stones.
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