For a little while, I was collecting articles about Insects as Food. I thought it would be fun to feed them into a word cloud generator, so I piled the articles into a giant text file, made some small adjustments and pasted the text into one of the free on-line cloud generators. Initially, I used […]
Tracking Retail Cricket Powder Prices
I have been following the field of entomophagy (insects as food) for a while: watching the news, and occasionally writing news roundups or more detailed pieces (see archive section below). So I have been wondering, as news coverage has increased, new products are launched, and companies start scaling up their insect-rearing operations, what is happening […]
Keeping an Open Mind about Insects and Other Sustainable Foods
(Disclosure: I received a discount on the registration fee in exchange for writing three posts about my experiences at the conference.) One night, the beef tongues in Chef Cesar Cienfuegos’ kitchen started speaking to him. They told him “There must be a better way, you need to start thinking differently.” It was a special night […]
Not a Free Lunch, but a Good Deal: Comparing Crickets to Other Livestock
In “Crickets Are Not a Free Lunch: Protein Capture from Scalable Organic Side-Streams via High-Density Populations of Acheta domesticus,” the results clearly supported the “no free lunch” title: feeding “free” waste food or crop residues to domestic crickets leads to high mortality and low weight gain. A free lunch is great, of course, but wouldn’t […]
Micro-Round-Up of News about Insects as Food (Entomophagy), February 2016
It has been quite a while since my last round-up of entomophagy news, so here’s another batch of fresh and not-so-fresh items. General For insects to gain popularity as food for humans, the insect containing foods need to tasty. Chefs will be leading this effort, whether in restaurants like Meeru Dhalwala from Vij’s in Vancouver, […]
Are Media Outlets Writing More about Insects as Food (Entomophagy)?
As I follow the news on insects as food (entomophagy), I have been wondering if the pace of articles has been increasing because it seems that every time I turn around there is another article about cricket flour or a new book about eating bugs. To answer my question, I visited the U.C. Berkeley library […]