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Author
Appearances
Coming
Soon to a Venue Near You!
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Caught
in the act: Chef Gordon with a plate of desert hairy scorpions.
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Pet a roach, eat a bug or hug a slug
at the following venues in the first half of 2003. This page will
be updated soon, as details are finalized for more exciting events.
May 31 and
June 1 |
Bug cooking at the Natural History Museum of
Los Angeles County's incredible Insect Fair |
| June/July |
Edible insect shows at various King County
WA libraries. Call Academic Entertainment: 1-800-883-9883
for details. |
| June 14 |
Bug-cooking demo at the first-ever Richmond,
VA Insect Fair at the 17th Street Farmers Market |
| August 2 - 3 |
Bug-cooking demos at the Milwaukee Public
Museum |
| August 16 |
Bug cooking demos at Union Station Kansas
City, MO |
Journalist
Yuzo Suwa and photographer Kota Kyogoku of Japan's Kyodo News
pause between courses at the big bug banquet in Seattle.
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Watch for David George Gordon
in perptual re-run on the following TV shows:
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien (NBC)
- Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee (ABC)
- The View with Barbara Walters (ABC)
- The Howie Mandel Show (Syndicated)
- HealthWeek (PBS)
- Too Extreme: Daredevils (TLC)
- The Gabereau Show (CBC)
- Extreme Cuisine (the Food Network)
- Yankee Pankee (BBC)
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A
tender moment with George Hamilton and Kathie Lee Gifford.
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If you can't beat 'em, eat 'em!
From Soup to Gnats:
The Essentials of Bug-Cookery
 This is an informative and entertaining public
program, presented by David George Gordon, and featuring color slides,
videotape segments, and- what else? -- live cooking demonstrations.
 It begins with an overview of the world's bug-eating cultures.
It presents compelling arguments in support of entomophagy (Point-of-fact:
A dried grasshopper's body is more than 60-percent protein, twice that
of chicken or beef) and offers practical advice on obtaining and preparing
crickets, mealworms, bee larvae and other bug delicacies.
For the program's grand finale, several audience members help prepare
a sumptuous bug dish on-stage. Then the crowd is invited to sample the
exotic fare -- Orthopteran Orzo (in which crickets give the pasta salad
an extra kick), Pest-O (common vine weevils get their comeuppance in
a delicate basil sauce) or other treats from The Eat-a-Bug Cookbook's
pages.
How can I get Gordon to cook bugs for
me?
We are now accepting invitations to bring From Soup to Gnats
to cities in North America and to conduct individual workshops
for school groups. We are also available to participate in insect
festivals, nature celebrations or other special events.
BOOKING
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Bug
cuisine has spectators squirming at San Francisco's Exploratorium.
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Step Into a World That, Until Now, You've
Only Stepped On...
 David
George Gordon invites you to explore the exciting world of the cockroach--
from the jungles of Equatorial Africa to the corridors of the Cockroach
Hall of Fame in Plano, Texas.. It's all part of The Compleat Cockroach
Traveling Road Show, a multimedia tribute to the insect we such
deeply love to loathe.
 This
one-hour public springs to life with music, color slides, video clips
and other treasures from Gordon's treasure trove of cockroach-abilia.
Audience members are treated to the basics of:
- Cockroach Biology: Where the world's 4,000 roach species
live, what they eat, and why some have chosen to make our homes their
homes.
- Cockroach Control: Effective strategies for keeping roaches
at bay-- or as pets!
- Cockroach Culture: From Aristophanes to Archy, Kafka's The
Metamorphosis to MTV, the rich legacy of roaches in song, dance,
and... motion pictures.
We are now accepting invitations to bring The Compleat Cockroach
Traveling Road Show to cities in North America, and to conduct individual
workshops for school groups. We are also available to participate in
insect festivals , nature celebrations or other special events.
BOOKING
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Dear Mr. Gordon,
I love your books. I have read The Field Guide to the Slug
but I especially liked The Complete Cockroach. I have liked
insects for a year and I am 9 years old. My favourite animal is
(you guessed it) the cockroach. Madagascan Hissing Cockroaches are
one of my favourite cockroaches. I used to have a Hissing Cockroaches
but it was old when I got it and it died a month later. I named
him Butch because he was so big. Now I have a Brazilian Giant Cockroach
named Pele. The only thing I do not like about Blaberus Giganteus
is that they are so fast. Do you still have Estelle, Richard, Bonnie,
Sally and Louise? When I grow up I want to be an entomolgist and
an "insect Picasso" Well, bye for now.
Sincerely,
Nathan Vedal |
 The
Secret Life of Slugs
 What's
hermaphroditic, filled with green blood, cruises around on one foot
and packs more teeth in its mouth than a shark? The Answer: any of the
more than 4,000 species of gastropod mollusks commonly known as slugs.
Fun facts like these are but part of the appeal of The Secret Life
of Slugs, the perfect one-hour program for the next meeting of your
garden society or nature club.
The author of the celebrated Field Guide to the Slug, naturalist
David George Gordon invites audiences to explore the Seven Wonders of
Slugdom -- and to look at North America's most fascinating garden inhabitant
from a fresh perspective. Assisted by Gordon's astounding collection
of color slides and exclusive video clips, you'll get up-close and personal
with North America's slugs and their snail relatives.
- Watch as a slug surfs on a layer of its own slime,
reaching peak cruising speeds of .002 miles per hour!
- Thrill to the slug's elaborate courtship rituals and
mating strategies -- guaranteed to curl your hair!
- Marvel at the banana slug -- the Pacific Northwest's
mega-mollusk, which can grow to a length of ten inches and weigh
one quarter of a pound.
- Cheer for the University of California at Santa Cruz
and its choice of the slug as a mascot.
- Learn the secrets of slug control in your garden, without
toxic chemicals or expensive devices for excluding slugs from
you beds.
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We guarantee that after attending one of Gordon's popular workshops,
you and your guests will never again say "Ugh, a slug"... or pour salt
on one of these highly evolved invertebrates, just for fun.
How can I get Gordon to share his knowledge
of slugs with me?
We are now accepting invitations to bring The Secret Life of Slugs
to cities in North America and to conduct individual workshops for school
groups or garden clubs. We are also available to participate in nature
festivals, outdoor celebrations or other special events.
BOOKING
For additional information
or to schedule a presentation, contact:
David George Gordon and Associates,
Inc.
P.O. Box 1372
Port Townsend, Washington 98368
(360) 385-5063
fax: (360) 385-5086
david@davidgeorgegordon.com
From Soup to Gnats
| The Compleat Cockroach Travelling Road Show
| The Secret Life of Slugs Show | Booking
| Appearance Schedule
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