{"id":87332,"date":"2023-08-24T10:07:55","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T14:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=87332"},"modified":"2023-09-14T10:55:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T14:55:33","slug":"critter-cook-off-for-bugfest-2023","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/event\/critter-cook-off-for-bugfest-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Critter Cook-off for BugFest 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/NIK_3098_edited_nik2_800w.jpg\" alt=\"Critter Cook-off 2017\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Visit the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences on Friday, Sept. 15 from 11am to noon, for an Iron Chef-style cook-off with a twist featuring local chefs from SoulBachi and Ethio-Indi Alkaline Cuisine. These adventurous chefs will create an appetizer, entr\u00e9e and dessert incorporating ingredients ranging from crickets to superworms (darkling beetle larvae).<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s brave taste-testers will judge the buggy fare based on taste, presentation and creativity. Our judges panel features Michelle Mackonochie, Morning Anchor for WRAL News; Rachel Duensing, Meteorologist for CBS17; Karen Clark, Mid-day Personality for Foxy 107\/104 Radio; and Dr. Nigel Armes, Entomologist and Director of R&amp;D Operations from BASF.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the competition <strong>in person<\/strong> on the first floor of the Nature Exploration Center (11 W Jones St. entrance). The program will also stream live online on <a title=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/w5gMSQfzFWQ\" href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/live\/UjVb5Y5Y354?feature=share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visit the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences on Friday, Sept. 15 from 11am to noon, for an Iron Chef-style cook-off with a twist featuring local chefs from SoulBachi and Ethio-Indi Alkaline Cuisine. These adventurous chefs will create an appetizer, entr\u00e9e and dessert incorporating ingredients ranging from crickets to superworms (darkling beetle larvae). This year\u2019s&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/event\/critter-cook-off-for-bugfest-2023\/\">Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[3,4,5,164,18,8,173],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/87332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/87332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87332"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=87332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}