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Damn Good Reasons to Eat Insects
Damn Good Reasons to Eat Insects
What is really in the food you eat, or the food you are feeding your family? Are you one of those label conscious people? Do you steer away from artificial/GMO ingredients? Maybe you are the kind that is aware and simply try and pick the “best” or “cleanest” versions of products at the store. Whoever you are, and wherever you fall on this spectrum, I think you should definitely entertain the…
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Mealworms For Your Next Meal: Humane And Nutritious, But What About Delicious?
Mealworms For Your Next Meal: Humane And Nutritious, But What About Delicious?
Mealworms: Ready to infuse some replenishable protein into your next meal. For us in the West, insects as a food are often considered the final frontier of the human diet. We know we can eat them—people all over the world do every day—but most of us are reserving this experience as our last ditch resort when the food apocalypse eliminates all the ‘real’ meat choices. But let’s be honest, word is…
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Cricket Flour: The New Rave for Diet and Exercise
Cricket Flour: The New Rave for Diet and Exercise
If you’re visiting this site, we can probably assume that you have some interest in testing some buggy concoctions. Cricket flour is usually the first insect food many people are willing to try: it doesn’t look like bugs, it doesn’t taste like bugs (most describe it as having a nutty flavor), and you can easily mix it into your favorite stew or any baked good. While these factors certainly make…
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Cricket Flour: Questions Answered about Your ‘Gateway Bug’
Cricket Flour: Questions Answered about Your ‘Gateway Bug’
Cricket flour is rapidly rising in popularity
Of all the different types of edible insects out there, crickets are the most commonly eaten. This is true for places like Southeast Asia and Central America, where they can often form a big part of the diet, and in the Western world. For whatever reason, crickets seem to be the ‘gateway bug’ for Americans and Europeans who are interested in seeing…
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Taco Tuesday with a Twist
Taco Tuesday with a Twist
If you sauté the grasshoppers with lime and garlic, they make an excellent addition to salads, tacos, and other dishes.
It’s Tuesday night and your family is demanding Mexican food yet again. In recent weeks, you’ve been though the usual round of taco fillers: carne asada, chicken, refried beans, and even fish. Maybe it’s time to try a healthier, more authentic approach to Mexican-style cuisine.…
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Insect Delicacies from the Land of Smiles
Insect Delicacies from the Land of Smiles
Thai people are known for their friendliness and exotic foods, including over 150 types of insects. When you see the street vendors in Bangkok or Phuket, don’t be fooled into thinking these meals are low class choices; they’re often considered hard-to-get delicacies.Here are details on some of the many Thai delicacies that come with a buggy crunch. After mustering up some courage on a few late…
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Four Western Myths about Eating Insects
Four Western Myths about Eating Insects
Insects have always been viewed as a taboo food in Western cultures. Reality shows like Survivor and Fear Factor dare people to eat beetles, worms, termites, etc. However, these challenges are lost on a large portion of the world’s people who eat insects on a regular basis.
Like most taboos across cultures, Western fears of eating insects are fueled by myths. Here are a few common misconceptions…
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Insect Meals From Around the World
Insect Meals From Around the World
People from the West may cringe at the idea of eating insects for a meal, but they’re the only ones. ‘Entomophagy,’ or the consumption of insects, is regularly practiced by about 80% of the world’s countries, and at least 2 billion people in Africa, Asia, and South America. Most of these cultures don’t even have a word like ‘entomophagy,’ because they never considered insects to be different from…
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Affordable and Unique Sites Where You Can Buy Edible Insects
Affordable and Unique Sites Where You Can Buy Edible Insects
People in the US and Europe are beginning to gain interest in what much of the rest of the world has known all along—that insects are a practical, healthy, and in many ways delicious part of the human diet. However, unless you live in a major city or in a border town with enough Mexican culinary infusion, you’d be hard pressed to find a restaurant that will serve you an ant egg salad or…
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Going Buggy: Cooking up a World of Insects at Home
Going Buggy: Cooking up a World of Insects at Home
Going Buggy: Cooking up a World of Insects at Home
Photo Source: Photo by Helene Combes, original at Wikimedia Commons
Will 2015 be the year that edible insects enter the American mainstream? Insects provide an ethical, source of protein to vegetarians and people concerned with factory farming. They provide a green, homegrown alternative to families who want to limit their carbon footprints. …
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Old McDonald Had a Mealworm? Getting Started with Microlivestock. Insects for Food.
Do you dream of having your own farm? Do you wish that you could afford more organic, humanely raised protein? Are you pretty sure that the other people in your building would call the cops if you tried to pack a herd of sheep into your apartment?
If you want to raise meat but don’t want to have to think about pasture and barns, it’s time to take a look at microlivestock. These tiny creatures…
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Bug Bites in the USA: Restaurants Serving Insects
Bug Bites in the USA: Restaurants Serving Insects
Are you ready to try your first insect delicacy? If you’re reading this blog, then maybe you are. Luckily, there are a plethora of specialty restaurants popping up across the US that will serve you crickets fresh from the frying pan, and more. If you think you’re over the ‘ick factor,’ here are a few of the most exotic places where the main course has more than four legs, found right at home.
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What’s the Deal with Cricket Flour? Five Things You Need to Know.
What’s the Deal with Cricket Flour? Five Things You Need to Know.
It seems to have come out of nowhere. A few years ago, edible insects meant chocolate-covered mealworms sold as novelty items. Suddenly, news reports talk about suburban moms using cricket flour to bake cookies? What’s going on? What is cricket flour, anyway? Is it a fad, or is it the future of food? Here are five things you need to know about cricket flour.
If you’re using 100% cricket flour,…
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Five Reasons Insects Belong In Your Diet
Five Reasons Insects Belong In Your Diet
Lately, foodies, environmentalists, and even the United Nations have been talking about Entomophagy. In the west, we tend to see insects as pests to be squashed, not tasty snacks. However, it might be time to change your views and your diet. In the next 10 years, insects in the American kitchen may change from a sign you need an exterminator to a sign that you need a fork.
Here are five reasons…
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Promoting Entomophagy (How to Get People to Eat Insects)
Promoting Entomophagy (How to Get People to Eat Insects)
You might not know about the benefits of eating bugs, except that they have protein and that they’re tasty and come in a wide array of unique flavors which blend well with so many different insect recipes. Some say different bugs taste like things we normally eat, like shrimp, popcorn, apple and even mint! And I’ll bet after you read this entire page and strategize your move, that special someone…
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Eating Insects (Entomophagy)
Pull my finger. Just do it. Now, think back to a time you’ve ever said that to anyone. Bonus points if it wasn’t a family member. If so, you’re probably way cooler than anyone gives you credos for. You probably have a higher IQ than most because you think outside the box and don’t feel the need to pigeonhole yourself into only doing things that are socially acceptable. You probably tried eating…
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Mormon Crickets - Sweet, Tasty and Versatile
Most of us get nostalgic listening to the shrill, high-pitched sounds of crickets on a summer night. It’s a sign of longer nights, lazy days, barbecues and maybe even the possibility of a romantic rendezvous. Well, you wouldn’t be the only one since those high-pitched mating calls that some refer to as an ‘auditory aphrodisiac’ signify the optimal mating time for these horny little katydids, also…
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