Tasting butterflies

[Mark Walker]

Rudy,

Is Brossard the crazy fellow that I've seen on films shown at the Montreal
Insectarium?  My family got a kick out of how much he reminded them of me...
Bugs crawling all over his face, talking to the camera when off he runs to
chase down some fly by, tripping over his feet and ending up face down in
the swamp...

My kind of guy...

Mark Walker.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rudy Benavides [mailto:rbenavid at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 12:36 PM
> To: Leps-l at lists.yale.edu
> Subject: Re: Tasting butterflies
> 
> 
> Have you ever eaten larvae?  If you have watched the tv 
> program _Insectia_ 
> with Canadian entomologist Georges Brossard, you may recall 
> the episode he 
> did on the Aegiale hesperiaris skippers in Mexico.  The 
> larvae, found at the 
> base of yucca and agave plants, are added to the individual 
> bottles of 
> Mescal to provide its distinctive flavor.  But indigenous 
> people in Mexico 
> also gather the caterpillars, deep fry them, and then season 
> with their 
> flavorful spicy sauces.  In that particular television  
> episode, Georges was 
> seen helping his host dig out handfuls of the caterpillars at 
> the base of a 
> yucca plant (?), then  showing how they were cooked, and 
> finally helping 
> himself to a plateful....yumm.  I can still hear him in his 
> distinctive 
> French Candaian accent saying....."ah, there ees notheeng 
> more finer than a 
> plate of theese delicious gusanos de Maguey".....or 
> sometheeng like that.
> 
> Rudy/Maryland
> 
> p.s. Brossard is the founder of the Montreal Insectarium, and 
> the last i 
> heard was that he was also involved in creating one for 
> Audobon in New 
> Orleans.
> 
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