The Eat-a-Bug Cookbook, Revised: 40 Ways to Cook Crickets, Grasshoppers, Ants, Water Bugs, Spiders, Centipedes, and Their Kin
David George Gordon
Language: English
Pages: 173
ISBN: 2:00170595
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
With its stylish new package, updated information on the health and environmental benefits of insect eating, and breed-your-own instructions, this new edition of The Eat-a-Bug Cookbook is the go-to resource for anyone interested in becoming an entomological epicure.
For many Americans, eating a lowly insect is something you’d only do on a dare. But with naturalist and noted bug chef David George Gordon, bug-eating is fun, exciting, and downright delicious!
Now you can impress, enlighten, and entertain your family and friends with Gordon’s one-of-a-kind recipes. Spice things up at the next neighborhood potluck with a big bowl of Orthopteran Orzo—pasta salad with a cricket-y twist. Conquer your fear of spiders with a Deep-Fried Tarantula. And for dessert, why not try a White Chocolate and Wax Worm Cookie? (They’re so tasty, the kids will be begging for seconds!)
Today, there are more reasons than ever before to explore entomophagy (that’s bug-eating, by the way). It’s an environmentally-friendly source of protein: Research shows that bug farming reduces greenhouse gas emissions and is exponentially more water-efficient than farming for beef, chicken, or pigs. Mail-order bugs are readily available online—but if you’re more of a DIY-type, The Eat-A-Bug Cookbook includes plenty of tips for sustainably harvesting or raising your own.
Filled with anecdotes, insights, and practical how-tos, The Eat-A-Bug Cookbook is a perfect primer for anyone interested in becoming an entomological epicure.
occasionally come to you, flitting in through the open windows of your kitchen in search of mates and the best places for making their nests. In this case, it’s a good idea to fry up these intruders on the spot, preventing their offspring from making a meal out of the untreated wood in your home. ENTO-EPHEMERA Writing of the Uele district in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, J. C. Bequaert described how both the Azande and Mangbetu people considered the region’s tall termite
the wax lids, then flushing out the contents with a trickle of cold water directed across the top of the comb. Others tell me to drop the entire comb into hot water and skim the larvae from the melted wax soup The easiest method I’ve found involves freezing the comb and its contents, then breaking the compartments apart, one row at a time, to release the frozen larvae. The little ivory-colored bodies can be collected, cleaned of any superfluous wax, and either returned to the freezer or plunged
Congratulations: You’ve now completed the coursework for Superworm 101. DIPPING SAUCE 6 tablespoons rice vinegar ¼ cup firmly packed brown sugar 1 umeboshi (preserved sour) plum, broken into pieces, or 1 teaspoon bainiku paste 1 small red chile, finely chopped BATTER 1 medium egg ½ cup cold water ½ cup all-purpose flour ½ teaspoon baking soda 24 frozen superworms, defrosted 2 cups peanut oil 1. To make the dipping sauce, combine the vinegar and brown sugar in a small
effective against an array of ailments is pai chiang t’san, bleached silkworms that have been obtained in the Yinhuan district of China during the fourth moon. These minute helpers are fire-dried, powdered, and mixed with juice from fresh gingerroot—a concoction that may be more palatable than silkworm excrement straight up—and are purported by the Chinese to be an effective treatment for typhus and stomach troubles. GIANT WATER BUG ON WATERCRESS Yield: 4 servings of 2 bugs each My first
farm-reared crickets and wild-caught pill bugs, Wes has grown rapidly. He has molted six times as of this writing, each time emerging from his cast-off body armor as a bigger, more robust beastie. Currently, the size of a silver dollar, and likely to exceed Doris in heft someday, the junior mascot of The Eat-a-Bug Cookbook is living proof that a diet of bugs has its benefits. In the past few years some valuable websites and Facebook pages devoted to entomophagy and the rearing of food insects