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(Image from Wired.com) As we read things on the internet, we bookmark them to share with you fine, fine folks. Generally we intend to share them one at a…
In the third instalment of our infrequently-released video blog, Maddy and I ate grasshoppers for the first time! Well, it's technically a compilation of our first two attempts at eating grasshoppers,…
Okay, so a cricket didn’t literally walk up to me and say, “hey Maddy -- you have the symptoms of Celiac. Maybe you should go check that out.” (though admittedly,…
Readers of the site might notice that we've been a bit quiet lately. Other than an awesome Donuts recipe we posted at the beginning of the week, we haven't posted…
Maddy and I got some grasshoppers recently from Grub in the UK. We're super-excited to be branching out into another species, because we've never had grasshoppers before. This is what they…
https://youtu.be/OVunhRpHQgo It's another video from us, and this time we try out Gathrfood's Crobar cricket-powered protein bars!
It's the first Gastrobug vlog, where we're cataloguing the various insect-related things we're up to. Maddy and Brian put some insects on the smoker. We cook up some crickets, waxworms…
Here at the Gastrobug headquarters, we're spending some time getting back to basics. This week we've acquired An Introduction to the Study of Insects by Borror, Triplehorn and Johnson, which…
Mealworms grow quickly, but the growing and harvesting can take up a lot of time, depending on how many you're growing. We've got an in-depth post describing how we're doing…
So far here at Gastrobug we've mostly eaten a bunch of ground up mealworms and crickets, with occasional snacks of dry roasted critters. Recently we broadened our horizons and tried…
We're ramping up mealworm breeding, and got a fancy new camera for our recipe videos, so why not use it to take some high-quality pictures of our mealworms?
Entomophagy is the technical term for consumption of insects as food. It works, but it isn't friendly or welcoming word, and there's much discussion among entomophagists about whether it's the…
We just became aware of these incredible looking beetles. Incredible! http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/trilobite-beetles-are-happy-being-on-land-alive-in-the-present-day/
One of the more common responses to the question of whether or not one would, under pain of death, eat insects, is to look at the person posing the question…
Wondering exactly which species of insects are suitable to be eaten? You're in luck, because we've got a pretty long list! Click here to read it, and let us know…
We've got lots of plans for tasty bug-infused recipes to show you, and info on how to grow your own insect food, and great reference info for people getting into entomophagy, and…
Interesting article over at the Entomove Project about a possible concern with insects -- primarily crickets -- as a food source: allergies. If you're allergic to shellfish, you should proceed…
This is an upcoming conference to be held in London, which will look at new frontiers in food and drink -- like it says on the tin -- and Arnold…
There are two main goals with this site: We want to show people that eating insects isn't crazy, that it's a good idea that makes sense and, that insects can…
There's a nice article on Eater.com about the hurdles involved in getting Americans -- and really any culture that isn't already into entomophagy -- into tossing back some crickets. It's…