Bug Buffet with Creepy Crawly Recipes
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What is Entomophagy?
Try a Three Bee Salad! or Chocolate Cricket Torte. Or maybe you would enjoy the Grasshopper Tacos?
Entomophagy is the practice of eating insects as food.
Learn about how insects have played an important role in the history of human nutrition in Africa, Australia, Asia and the Americas. There are about 2000 edible insects in the world - How many have you tasted?
If you prefer food that doesn't want to crawl off your plate, try making insect flour. Recipe is here.
An introduction to the world of edible insects, complete with recipes and color photographs.
Creepy Crawly Cuisine: The Gourmet Guide to Edible Insects
Amazon Price: $9.67 (as of 02/15/2012)
Includes an historical look at the use of edible insects in indigenous cultures.
Provides information on where to obtain insects and how to store and prepare them.
Includes over 60 gourmet recipes, complete with stunning color photographs.
Chocolate Covered Cicadas
Chocolate Covered Cicadas
Ingredients -8 squares of good quality dark, white or milk chocolate -30 cicadas Directions -Roast cicadas for 15 minutes at 225 degrees F -Meanwhile, melt chocolate in double boiler at low heat -Dip insects in chocolate, place on wax paper and refigerate until hardened Simple, easy and supposedly delicious!
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Close View of a Cicadas Face Photographic Print
Murawski, Darlyne...
32 in. x 24 in.
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Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects
Amazon Price: $15.82 (as of 02/15/2012)
"Our view of the culinary potential of invertebrates broadened as we ate raw scorpion in China, roasted grubs in Australia, stir-fried dragonflies in Indonesia, tarantulas on a stick in Cambodia, and live termites in Botswana," they write. "Perhaps the most memorable meal was Theraposa leblondi, a tarantula big enough to hunt birds, which we ate with Yanomami Indians in the Venezuelan rain forest."
Venezuelan Tarantula
Eat-a-bug Cookbook: 33 ways to cook grasshoppers, ants, water bugs, spiders, centipedes, and their kin
Eat-a-bug Cookbook: 33 ways to cook grasshoppers, ants, water bugs, spiders, centipedes, and their kin
Amazon Price: $9.31 (as of 02/15/2012)
Gordon enthusiastically provides recipes for terrestrial arthropods gleaned from the entomophagic appetites of people around the world, telling you which insects are most delicious and which to avoid, how to cook them, and which wine to drink with your many-legged meal.
Mealworms - you can make mealworm flour and add it to almost anything.
More Insect Recipes - More than you ever wanted to know about eating bugs!
Spread your cleaned insects out on a lightly greased cookie sheet. Set your oven 200 degrees and dry insects for approximately 1-3 hours. When the insects are done, they should be fairly brittle and crush easily. Take your dried insects and put them into a blender or coffee grinder, and grind them till they are about consistency of wheat germ. Use in practically any recipe!
- Eat Bugs - Recipes
- While there are many people in other countries who prefer to eat insects live and raw, and while it is true that you could probably get the most nutrients that way, I prefer food that won't crawl off my plate. I have tried eating live ants and mealworms, and in fact present a "recipe" for live insect consumption below; however, I would advise that beginning insect eaters start with cooked insects.
Cricket - You might want to remove the legs before eating as they tend to get stuck in your teeth.
You'll learn how to catch crickets the proper way.
Ronnie's Rotten Recipes
Amazon Price: $17.23 (as of 02/15/2012)
Have you ever tried a beetle brownie? No? Then you don't know what you're missing. Did you know that strange things- like bugs and creepy crawlies- have wonderful tastes?
Bug-a-licious (Extreme Cuisine)
Bug-A-Licious (Extreme Cuisine)
Amazon Price: $17.43 (as of 02/15/2012)
Try the Bug Pizza or the Wasp Crackers. Or maybe you would enjoy the Grasshopper Tacos?
Visit an Insect Farm
- Australian Insect Farm
- They ship worldwide.
The production of bred insect stock is highly sustainable due to the ecological viability of the retained bushland. Through careful protection and maintenance of the rainforest ecosystem, it becomes possible to replenish and continually diversify captive invertebrate stocks, based entirely upon the natural communities occurring on the property.
One California man would like more of us to eat insects.
Would you like to try a candied apple coated with mealworms?
Edible Caterpillars
- Edible Morpani Worms
- Mopane's are a staple part of the diet in Southern Africa, they are harvested twice a year and sold in the local markets.
The mopane worm is the brightly coloured caterpillar of the Emperor Moth, which is one of the world's largest moths, and the caterpillar lives on the leaves of the mopane tree - hence, it gets its name.
The worms are hand picked or shaken off the trees. The local collector's squeeze the Caterpillars to remove their bright green 'guts' and then they are cooked in a cauldron of salty water until the water has evaporated, they are then dried in the Hot African Sun. Once dried, they can be stored for many months. Their protein content is three times that of beef, weight for weight, and they are traditionally cooked in a stew containing tomatoes and onions.
Eat Bugs. Save the Planet
- Everyone Eat Insects
- There is a rational, even persuasive, argument for voluntarily eating insects: Bugs are high in protein, require less space to grow and offer a more environmentally friendly alternative to the vertebrates we Westerners prefer, advocates of the bug fare say.
Andrew Zimmern and his father Eating June Bugs
Andrew Zimmern Host of Bizarre Foods
The Bizarre Truth: How I Walked Out the Door Mouth First . . . and Came Back Shaking My Head
Amazon Price: $1.98 (as of 02/15/2012)
(knowingly referring to himself as "a guy who eats bugs")
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vallain
Sep 10, 2011 @ 7:25 pm | delete
- Good thing I already had dinner. I'd have to be pretty hungry to munch on any of these.
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Tipi
May 25, 2011 @ 12:57 pm | delete
- I was hungry awhile ago, but in the past few minutes I got over it. This is pretty cool!
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andreaberrios
Aug 23, 2009 @ 10:13 am | delete
- WOW! I knew about this, but I'm not sure I would try it :) Excellent lens! 5*
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stargazer00
Dec 25, 2008 @ 10:39 pm | delete
- I've seen this kind of thing on TV and I have to say it makes me shudder to think of eating worms or insects. Maybe if I had to do it to survive...
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mulberry
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- This is a fantastic and unique lens...but I have to say I'm too chicken to try any of this!!!
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Bugs! A Rainforest Adventure
Amazon Price: $7.79 (as of 02/15/2012)
Explore the extraordinary hidden world of insects, where a leaf weighs more than a car, rain drops feel like exploding hand grenades and a blade of grass soars like a skyscraper. Shot on location in the Borneo rainforest.
Inflatable Bugs
Learning Resources - Inflatable Insects
Amazon Price: $24.95 (as of 02/15/2012)
# Get kids interested in nature with these large inflatable insects.
# The ladybug, dragonfly, ant, bee and grasshopper have beautiful realistic details based on insect field guides.
# Hang tabs allow for a cool display in a child's room.
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