New Cookbook Features Reptile Recipes

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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.

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