Insect Recipes Archives | Bugs for Dinner

Tarantulas With Cricket Salad: It’s What’s For Dinner

by Bill Broadbent | Jan 24, 2015 | Insect Recipes

David G. Gordon explains why we should be eating bugs and talks about some of the recipes in his book, The Eat-A-Bug Cookbook: 40 Ways to Cook Crickets, Grasshoppers, Ants, Water Bugs, Spiders, Centipedes, and Their Kin. About the Book: For many Americans, eating a...

Buggy-Frutti Christmas Deserts

by Bill Broadbent | Dec 28, 2014 | Insect Recipes

This is a great page even though we are past the Christmas Holiday. As a bonus, the author adds a recipe for a “coconut’s blintz with raspberry sauce, pecan and crickets and paprika’s kale chips with roasted mealworms”. Sounds delicious! Check out the...

Grub’s Up: Can Insects Feed the World?

by Bill Broadbent | Dec 27, 2014 | Edible Insects in the News, Insect Recipes

Two billion people already eat insects as part of their regular diet – bugs may not sound appealing, but once upon a time neither did sushi. Is it time to put ants, beetles and locusts on the menu? From the high windows of a warehouse in southern Spain a shaft of...

The Case for Eating Insects | CNN

by Bill Broadbent | Dec 22, 2014 | Edible Insects in the News, Insect Recipes

In the next 40 years, the world is going to need a 70 percent increase in food production to feed a population that will be billions larger and considerably wealthier than it is today. Where is that food going to come from? Dutch entomologist Marcel Dicke has at least...

Sip Chardonnay with Tarantula and Wash Down Scorpion with Pinot Noir

by Bill Broadbent | Dec 22, 2014 | Edible Insects in the News, Insect Recipes

The world’s first guide to matching INSECTS and wine. A British wine merchant has created the world’s first insect and wine matching guide. As well as pairing Chardonnay to tarantulas, buyers at Laithwaite’s Wine matched sparkling rose to barbecued...