crickets

Forget eggs, bread and milk — crickets are the only thing you need when prepping for a catastrophe. Speaking of grocery shopping, remember to pick up some gelatin for your coffee and bring your cat along for the ride. It's got a few things to pick up as well, according to a German commercial that, of course,…

A little cured ham never hurt a meat lover, right? The addition of a few slices of this Italian pork candy (think smokeless bacon) to a meal can turn a decently solid spread into a restaurant-quality affair. Break out the pancetta for dinner tonight and add a classy touch to the whole meal — here are our…

Insects are the trendy, sustainable way to get your protein. We’d say “new,” but we’re way behind on the bugs-for-protein trail, and it’s time to catch up! Hone your entomophagy skills with Shami Radia and Neil Whippey, cofounders of Grub — a company that sells high-quality bugs ready to be used in cooking or eaten alone — and…

We’ve heard it over and over again: Entomophagy, also known as eating bugs, is good for you and the environment and is eventually going to take over the world. Some college kid ate them for a month, and even the United Nations isn’t bugged out by the diet.Eating the little critters straight up to start out may…

Getting over the “yuck factor” wasn’t the hardest thing for Camren Brantley-Rios, the 21-year-old college student whose pledge to eat insects three times daily for an entire month — a personal challenge chronicled on his blog, 30 Days of Bugs — made international headlines. Locating enough ants, crickets and other crawly critters to ingest wasn’t terribly…

[caption id="attachment_74961" align="alignnone" width="700" ] Brooklyn-based Exo, which makes a line of cricket-flour protein bars, raised $1.2 million last quarter.[/caption] If you think that all the hype about eating crickets and other crawly things is just a bunch of hippie-dippie pipe-dream stuff, well, your friends in finance seem to disagree. The Wall Street Journal reports…

The Acai. Greek yogurt. Kale. It’s no secret that these are considered to be some of the country’s most well known “superfoods” of the moment. But might we soon be adding, er, crickets to this list? The video below certainly makes a compelling case for eating insects, highlighting that they are high in protein, fiber…

When developing the recipe for an all-new kind of plat du jour this week, Rodney Scruggs didn’t merely step outside his usual comfort zone. He hopped. His selected protein: dehydrated grasshoppers. It’s the first time that Scruggs, executive chef at the historic Occidental Grill in Washington, D.C., has experimented with such insectual ingredients. To be…

If you fancy yourself a sustainable eater, think again. It turns out the real sustainable pros are feasting on bugs. Those things that you’re killing in your apartment, these people are eating. Sustainability has been on everyone’s mind, between the food price crisis and global warming. Bug-eating advocates have capitalized on this to promote the…