Wilson was born in Roseland in Tangipahoa Parish, one of the "Florida Parishes" east of Baton Rouge. He began his career as a safety engineer while he traveled throughout Acadiana. His safety lectures that he made to refinery workers prompted him on the road to becoming a Cajun storyteller. He remembered it this way on the back cover of The Justin Wilson Cook Book:
"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.
"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."
Wilson (who was actually only one-half Cajun, or "half-bleed Ca-jon" as he put it) later recorded several humor albums, beginning with "The Humorous World of Justin Wilson." He later appeared as a guest on the popular CBS series The Ed Sullivan Show.
He later wrote seven Cajun cookbooks and two books of Cajun stories. He hosted a cooking show on American public television that combined Cajun cooking and Cajun humor. He was known for the catchphrase, "I gar-own-tee!".
But Mr. Wilson’s talent was not limited to his ability to tell stories. He composed 10 songs, as well as composing the background music for his world-renowned cooking show and recorded one album of Christmas songs with a jazz band.
A professional member of the American Society of Safety Engineers, Justin never quit wearing both a belt and suspenders—there were some things he’d just never leave to chance. But he described himself most often as a "darn good cook"! And it was his Cajun cooking that gained him the most notoriety. The author of seven best-selling Cajun cookbooks and two books of humorous Cajun stories, his cooking series were aired from coast-to-coast on Public Television and worldwide on Armed Services television. Justin died September 5, 2001.
As you round the corner on Greenview Drive, you might just get a whiff of some good ole Southern cookin'. Pull over here and reach out for another matchstick camoed container. This here is one easy Park & Grab, as easy as sliding off a greasy log backward. I gar-own-tee!
I aimed to stick around a bit and spent near 3 minutes averaging dem coordinates. But just as I was fixing to skeedattle, I seen me a bunch of brokedy limbs and wondered to meself how dey got dis-a-way.
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