Blog

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.

  Continue Reading
  December 26, 2014   No comments

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.

  Continue Reading
  December 23, 2014   No comments

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.

  Continue Reading
  December 16, 2014   No comments

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 […]

  Continue Reading
  December 13, 2014   No comments

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’ […]

  Continue Reading
  December 8, 2014   3 comments