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In collaboration with Orkin, Richard Blais has crafted several recipes featuring insects and more, and he filled us in on ...
Drexel's Academy of Natural Sciences will host the 18th iteration of the celebration of creepy-crawlers on Aug. 9 and 10.
"[Pictures] like these make me think I should pay closer to the food I'm eating. Or ignorance is bliss. Two roads. I must ...
Entomophagy, the practice of eating insects, has been a part of human life and culture for thousands of years. Today in Thailand, crickets, silkworm pupae and giant water bugs are menu staples — often ...
Why aren't we eating more insects yet? Food Editor Emma Waldinger gets a taste of entomophagy — the practice of eating insects — in Madison. Literally.
Some experts believe that entomophagy could form a significant share of the global food system within a few decades. In the short term insect protein could constitute an ‘invisible’ ingredient in ...
Entomophagy is the technical term for eating insects. Before the advent of tools and farming, every human being was an entomophage. That practice continues in the Northeast.
Will insects ever be a staple in Malaysia? Consuming insects, or entomophagy, is not an anomaly, particularly among South-East Asia’s indigenous communities such as those in Sabah and Sarawak ...
Researchers and bug enthusiasts are cooking up cicadas as sweet snacks or pizza toppings this summer. Some hope cicadas will help entomophagy – the practice of eating insects – catch on.
More than 2 billion people eat insects on a daily basis around the world. But entomophagy, or the intentional consumption of insects as food, remains rare in the U.S.
Those hoping that human entomophagy will lead to more sustainable global food systems should be careful what they wish for: The ecologically minded push to include more grubs in human diets is going ...
Enter the world of entomophagy, or the practice of eating bugs! While this concept may seem foreign, insects have been a staple in diets around the world for thousands if not millions of years ...