Local author David George Gordon, also known as The Bug Chef, will be cooking up critters at a Bug Banquet to be held at Seattle’s Café Racer on Wednesday, September 7.
As author of the critically acclaimed The Eat-a-Bug Cookbook, Gordon has spent the past decade giving cooking demos at such places as the Smithsonian Institution, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, and Singapore’s Food Festival.
“As far as the phenomenon of bug-eating, it’s really gone through the roof in the past year or two,” Gordon explained. Now he’s ready to showcase what he and others call “the food of the future” closer to home.
Diners can expect a menu that includes grasshopper kabobs, a cricket-and-pasta salad, bug juice, and other exotic treats.
In addition, Café Racer will feature an insect-themed art exhibit and the mounted insect collection of entomologist Don Ehlen, proprietor of The Insect Safari—an independent education program based in Seattle. God’s Favorite Beefcake, Café Racer’s unofficial house band, will provide the music with leadership by Drew Keriakides of Circus Contraption fame (who, incidentally, has actually performed numerous times as a giant cockroach).
Tickets for this one-time-only event are $20 and can be purchased at Café Racer.
This is going to be quite a shindig… I love the people involved in this swanky affair. Thank you for the article.