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Article: Gross out?(You Can Do It)(insect eating)(Brief Article)
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- Science World
- Article date:
- January 12, 2004
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Scorpion scallopini, yum! Biologist and chef David George Gordon enjoys eating bugs so much, he recently wowed crowds at a Singapore food festival with a cooking demonstration.
To turn the stinging scorpion into a snack, Gordon first froze the critter. "Then it's no more dangerous than a shrimp," he says. Using a knife, he removed the stinger and venom gland from the tail's tip. After dipping it in milk and cornmeal, Gordon fried the scorpion in a buttered skillet.
Sound odd? "Actually, the U.S. is the oddball," says Gordon. About 80 percent of the world's population practices entomophagy ...