Chef David George Gordon

Appearing Live at the Butterfly!
 

Join the Butterfly Pavilion on Saturday, April 10, 2010 for three insect cooking demonstrations with insect Chef David George Gordon.

Cooking Demonstration Times:
10:00 a.m.
noon
2:00 p.m.

Cooking demonstrations are included with admission!! Limited seating is available, and is first come, first serve. Priority seating will be available for members during the 10:00 a.m. show!

Learn more about Chef Gordon here!

The special event is part of the Dr. Entomo’s Palace of Exotic Wonders opening day festivities. Dr. Entomo’s is the Pavilion’s newest traveling exhibit. Resembling an old-fashioned circus sideshow, Dr. Entomo’s explores the truth, myths and mysteries surrounding some of nature’s most curious creatures – many of them alive and on view. Those daring enough to enter will be captivated by the deceptive and treacherous techniques of over two dozen invertebrates. Visitors will learn the natural history of the animals on display, and in some instances even interact with the live animals.

Along with Tempura Battered Mealworms and Scorpion Scaloppine, Gordon will also be cooking up his signature dish, Orthopteran Orzo – cricket nymphs and orzo pasta – for Butterfly Pavilion visitors, as well as several other insect dishes. Audience members will be chosen at random to assist Chef Gordon with the creation of the insect dishes, and everyone will get a chance to sample at least one dish.

The freewheeling nature nut has been featured in Ripley’s Believe It or Not, National Geographic Kids and Time magazine and on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, ABC’s Nightline and Barbara Walters' The View. Gordon’s Eat-a-Bug Cookbook was voted the third weirdest cookbook in the world. Gordon has performed all across America and in several foreign countries, and has been called the Martha Stewart of insect cuisine.

"You'll laugh out loud, squirm uncomfortably and lick your chops while taking this deliciously creepy culinary tour," one enthused reviewer for Amazon.com wrote, describing Gordon's best-known title, The Eat-a-Bug Cookbook.

Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to learn all about entomophagy — the practice of eating insects! People around the world have been crunching on critters for centuries, and now you too can join the fun too. Eating insects isn't reserved just for the voyeuristic challenges on reality TV shows like Survivor and Fear Factor anymore.

From a culinary perspective, insect fare offers a seemingly endless array of options. An estimated 1,400 species of insects and worms are eaten as regular fare in almost 90 countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.


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