What Are You Doing For Thanksgiving?: David George Gordon
David George Gordon, the Bug Chef Jeff Cole David George Gordon, aka the “Bug Chef,” creates culinary masterpieces using crickets, ants, grasshoppers, water bugs, centipedes, scorpions, and more. He is the author of The Eat-a-Bug Cookbook, which features 40 insect recipes, and regularly hosts interactive cooking demos. Popular Science spoke with him about his Thanksgiving plans for this year. What are you eating and/or cooking for Thanksgiving? This year I am traveling in the United Kingdom, where Thanksgiving is not such a big deal. However, in the past, I’ve served grasshopper kabobs, cricket and chestnut stuffing, and cranberry cockroach relish, among other bug delights. I also enjoy deep-fried tarantula spiders and chocolate-dipped capulines, which are small, wild-harvested grasshoppers that have been roasted and seasoned in Oaxaca. Another one of my all-time favorites is my...