Word: cajun
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DIED. JUSTIN WILSON, 87, Cajun chef and humorist for public television whose trademark expression was "I gar-on-tee"; in Baton Rouge, La. Bedecked in red suspenders, Wilson, a former safety engineer, studied his mom's cuisine as a boy, wrote five popular cookbooks and was host on such shows as Cookin' Cajun and Louisiana Cookin...
...small triumphs of global commerce is that anyone who craves Cajun-spiced drumsticks can now find them at 285 Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits restaurants in 21 countries, from Australia to Saudi Arabia. But the worldwide spread of America's fat-drenched fast food is an old story. What's new is the way that more and more of these businesses are run: by managers based in the U.S. who direct and assist their overseas branches through the Internet, e-mail, phone and videoconferencing. Call them virtual bosses. They offer a more efficient way for hundreds of U.S. multinational firms--from restaurant...
...campaign, but "she's never worked in a White House," says a friend. "She couldn't pass this opportunity up." The decision hasn't sat well with her equally partisan husband, James Carville. With two kids under six, her job means more Mr. Mom duties for the vein-popping Cajun who helped elect Bill Clinton in 1992. It also means a serious drop in family income. Carville and Matalin's mix of celebrity, romance and adversarial politics has been a lucrative formula--joint speeches, talk-show gigs--since their public courtship during the '92 campaign...
Then the Food Network went platinum. It started with Emeril Lagasse, who turned into a Cajun cartoon on his popular, superanimated Emeril Live, but the trend solidified with shows like the campy and overexposed Japanese game show Iron Chef, which proved you can never underestimate the American appetite for laughing at those funny Asians...
...like him. He was one of the first people who kind of stepped outside of conventional sketch comedy and commented on it in a way that deconstructed it in a silly way. At the time, the audience was split. "Oh, it's so stupid. He just called his character Cajun Man." And other people love it because he's making fun of the labored premises that sketch comedy has. Believe me, he knew what he was doing. He's an incredibly smart guy. I think he's hysterical. I think his movies - obviously he's constructed more conventional vehicles...