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Local Dude Eats Bugs
12:56PM ON
02/12/2008
BY
Eric Smith
Meet David Gracer, proprietor of Providence’s Sunrise Land Shrimp, whose slogan is, “Mmm, That’s good Land Shrimp!” Let’s get this right out of the way: land shrimp are, as far as I can tell, crickets. But that’s not all David eats. As a self-proclaimed entomophagist (dudes who eat bugs.) Mr. Gracer is spreading his message far and wide and will, incredibly, be on The Colbert Report tomorrow, according to his blog, Bugs For Dinner! (top that, Lexi) There was also a story on him in the New York Times Sunday Magazine but he didn’t give us a link to that. Google it, I guess. In the meantime, he has left a helpful gallery here, of all kinds of crickets, water bugs, cicadas, mealworms and grasshoppers frying in pans, pots, on plates, fried, skewered, ground into “cicada flour”, etc.
February 12th, 2008 at 1:12PM
Mike Ritz Says:
David has appeared in the New York Times twice in the past week.
Mention of his appearance at a CT Bug event - http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE4D8133FF934A35750C0A9629C8B63
Full article on David here - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/magazine/10wwln-essay-t.html?ref=todayspaper
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February 12th, 2008 at 1:37PM
Guest alert: David Gracer scheduled for tomorrow night’s ‘Colbert Report’ Says:
[...] Providence Daily Dose confirms Gracer’s scheduled appearance here. [...]
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