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Leapin' Lizards! Cookbook Offers Reptile Recipes





POSTED: 9:50 am EDT August 4, 2005

UPDATED: 10:14 am EDT August 4, 2005



HOUMA, La. -- Ernest Liner is a reptile lover. He loves studying them and loves to eat them, too.

The 80-year-old has published more than 130 scientific papers on herpetology. But his latest work is a cookbook, "The Culinary Herpetologist."

He has 950 recipes for lizards, frogs, snakes, and the like. You'll find everything from alligator tetrazzini to iguana stew. Some of his recipes are historical in nature, like the one for roasted poison dart frog from the Campa Indians of Peru.

Liner said he's been interested in slithering things since he caught his first copperhead, a poisonous snake, when he was a Cub Scout.

:yh_sick I would imagine Lizards etc would be very ....... chewy????

:-3 Glad he does something with them after he kills them.. I will pass on anything with possium in it, not big on road kill either..

LC, you know that this really is fascinating.

Now, I wonder what motivated her to write this book and compile/make these recipes. :wah:

It's what happens after the poor critters die. They can't have my frogs and toads! They are my classroom pets!