admin In 1986, Marcelle Bienvenu published a fried turkey recipe in her New Orleans Times-Picayune “Cooking Creole” column, and Justin Wilson cooked a deep-fried turkey on his popular Louisiana Cookin’ television show, which aired across the country on PBS. But the real breakout moment for deep fried turkey seems to have occurred in October 1987, when … Read more
Justin laid the groundwork for what would later be an explosion of interest in Louisiana cooking and pave the way for such celebrity chefs as Paul Prudhomme, Emeril Lagasse and others. View Full Article
Baton Rouge Louisiana State Capital Justin Wilson Southern Products was honored to be invited to Certified Louisiana Day on the Capitol grounds. Select Certified company’s are chosen each year to participate in this once a year event. JWSP cooked for amount 200 legislative and capital employees. Justin’s Chicken Ala Creole made with their new Justin … Read more
NATIVE SON Justin E. Wilson –“I Garontee” Justin Wilson was born in 1914 in Roseland, Louisiana, the second youngest of seven children of Harry D. Wilson the Louisiana Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry from 1916 to 1948 and a former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. Mr. Harry was of Welsh decent…
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At age 84, Cajun cook Justin Wilson, famous for his New Orleans cuisine cookbooks and a popular PBS TV cooking show in the 1980s, visited Northwest Indiana in October 1998 to promote his final published cookbook. (PBS TV Archive) PUBLISHED BY THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE
