New Orleans foodwriter, photographer, and chef, Pable Song, spreads the gospel of the community by providing red beans and rice bowls to thousands of people, and has a single -form Maldigra tradition. I recorded it and died on Sunday. He was 59 years old.
Johnson's sister Charlotte Aaron said he was shooting what he did frequently when he had experienced cardiac arrest and could not be resurrected at the hospital.
Johnson moved to New Orleans in 2001, and became a “fun fixcial” in the city by local chef Frank Brigsen.
“He accepted New Orleans and accepted him because he was very real,” said Brigzen in an interview.
Many of Johnson's friendship began with all the people he met with red beans and rice bowls, a traditional Monday meal in New Orleans. He first cooked it every week for a small group of friends, but immediately for pilgrims nationwide who loved the food and culture of the city.
His guest's rotating group includes not only local musicians, famous chefs, visiting journalists, but also neighbors who need meals and friends with mental pain.
The mobile phone was not allowed, and the menu did not change from red beans, rice and cornbreds to dessert whiskey. The table had a paper towel roll and a spoon mountain. Guests can drink something, but they can always have food.
The restriction was to comply with the simplicity of traditional meals made on Monday because the city's cook was busy with laundry. Extra dishes are all too complicated. Johnson wants to concentrate on conversation.
“One important thing in the table was not the grandmother's house cafeteria. Johnson said in 2017 on the public radio program, The Splendid Table. “The flashy dining room table was not used every day, but this was the place where all the power was.”
Dinner has become an important bridge between cities, and Jessica Harris, a scholar of Diasupola, a regular guest, lives in the part -time part -time of New Orleans.
“There are very few places where black and white people interact with New Orleans,” said Dr. Harris. “The joy is that the table was the way he created the community, and the community was a very necessary community in New Orleans with strange social apartheids.”
In some cases, guests include the city's historic social assistance and pleasure club members. It was formed as a black, merciful society for pooling resources for covering healthcare and funeral.
On most Sundays, one of the 40 clubs will purchase custom costumes, hire a brass band, and hold an elaborate four -hour parade known as the second line.
Their costumes, music, and customs were attractive to Johnson, who became a regular, wearing Johnny Cache Black on his shoulders, putting his camera on his shoulders. He also photographed an image of a black masking Indian, who was well -known as Maldigra Indians. This is an unprecedented slice of the community of the city, which was created as a method of honoring indigenous people who helped survive in the wilderness of Louisiana.
Maldigulindian can suspect outsiders and keep many photographers approach, and at the last moment of his last moment, a retired university with Johnson on the Uni Secode Line. Freddy Hill, Director and documentary photographer.
“I trusted him because he didn't sell his photos,” she said in an interview. “I knew they could call if they respect his work and they need something from him.”
When someone in the community died, Johnson expanded his portraits for his family and appeared at the funeral.
In 2016, he created two documentaries on the Black Masking Indian culture. “Spirit leads my needle: the big chief of the carnival” and “It's your glory: the big queen of the carnival.” Some of his images were on display at galleries and museums nationwide.
The second line for the deceased people, also known as the commemorative procession, is usually made for club members, musicians, or Indian masking. However, one will be arranged for Johnson on Monday and will come this week.
“To get such a treatment on the night after passing by, Mr. Johnson's reporter and friend, Katie Leck Dal, stated:” That's the city's cultural community. I tell you that it is an essential part.
Paul Michael Johnson was born on January 8, 1966 in Tolenton, New Jersey in Heavert Bran and Philip Johnson in Carmel. By the age of seven, his parents divorced, and the mother, who grew up in Baton Rouge, moved Paul and his two sisters to New Iberia, about 130 miles west of New Orleans. In 1988, he graduated from Trinity University in San Antonio, where he studied history, religion and sociology.
His friendship with the Latin community in the city has contributed to his decision that Pablo turns Pablo into Pablo.
After bouncing between Europeans in San Francisco and Oxford, Michigan, he landed in Austin, Texas, where he worked as a freelance food writer, including the New York Times, and throws a gambo party that has grown into more than 100 guests. I started.
He later turned New Orleans' Monday dinner into a Red Beans road show, packed his car with ingredients, partnered with chefs in dozens of cities, and reproduced what he did at home. 。
During the holidays, he stockpiled a cheap turkey in the freezer, turned it into Garon of Ganbo that he delivered, and gained a nickname Gambo Klaus.
He creates a fun and intimate portrait of most people he met, joking, and said, “Think of me with your beard with your beard.” Many parents said that their photos of their children were the best I've ever seen.
He wrote four books, including a new Orleans' meal guidebook published just before Hurricane Catrina. He was the first call made by many food journalists when he was one of the top 100 cooks in the United States on the website and traveled to Louisiana.
In addition to his sister Charlotte, he survives by another sister, Elaine Johnson. Half brothers, Tony Blanco. And Joe Blanco, Felicia Sirthy, and Paul Bran in his step -in -law. The marriage with Ariana French was divorced in 2006.
He will also say that he has survived by his “his people”, or countless friends he made for decades.
Dr. Harris was one of them.
“He called and said,” I'm just checking my people. How are you? ” “People don't do that anymore. Just get the phone, but Pavlow did.”
