Here was my favorite on the tube. A former safety engineer who learned to cook from his Cajun mother, Wilson turned to humor for a living after being seriously injured in a car accident in the 1940s. His Cajun cooking show aired on public television for 30 years. Wilson famed for his typical Cajun dishes of pungent spices and hot peppers, always said he was ``not a chef, just a damn good cook.'' Sara Sue Easterly, his daughter, said he started telling jokes to make critical warehouse reports less painful for the recipients. "People just kept asking him for more and more jokes, so he did," she said. "If there was breath in the man's body, he was cooking and telling jokes." Wilson recorded more than 27 albums and wrote eight Cajun cookbooks and two books of Cajun humor. Of his fractured French-to-English sayings, some that worked their way into the American vernacular included, "How ya'll are?" and "Me, I'll gar-on-tee!" Wilson referred to himself as a half-bleed Cajun. His daughter said. "He always said he didn't think he could take a full dose of Cajun blood." His motto was "If it ain't fun, don't do it." He died in 2001 at age 87.

When you know that a person he admired and quoted was Will Rogers, he considered himself a gourmand and not a gourmet, he narrated albums of wit and satire and never forgot who he was, then you have Justin Wilson the Cajun Chef. He never took himself too seriously as he brought the joys of backyard barbequing, mouthwatering family one pot dining and one cup of whiskey for the pot and one cup for me attitude that endeared him to his audience. His critics frowned upon his use of broken Cajun and his rendition of a backwoods Louisianan. I am sure he chuckled all the way to the bank on this one, I gar-ron-tee!

Another late, great cook (chef?). He was more of a home style cook, and I don't think that he considered himself a chef. He was a master of Cajun cooking. He was a pleasure to listen to as well, with his Cajun dialect.