For adventurous spirits thinking of foraging for their own insects, Gordon echoes what Duty told the kids: Don’t. “If you start collecting bugs from your own backyard, you probably are exposing yourself to pesticides,” Gordon says. “Home gardeners use three times as many pesticides as a professional farmer would.” His book gives resources, but he says go to a pet store for crickets and mealworms, which they sell as live food for lizards and turtles. As Duty told the students, kill the critters by freezing and, for crickets, just pull off the legs and wings. Toss them into the rest of the ingredients and voilà, bugs in a jiffy!
A sought-after personality who’s been on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Gordon is making fewer appearances these days as he writes his next book, about his adventures as a bug chef: Travels with My Ant.
(Originally published in the August 2008 issue.)
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