Entries Tagged as 'cooking methods'

House Fly Pupae: Surprisingly Good

March 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · cooking methods, exotics, flour, fly, giant water bug

About two weeks ago I offered four folks from RISD a special banquet. This was in a private home and the participants had a great time. I offered about a dozen varieties of insects, some of which I’d never served before. There was the impressive-yet-usual:

Giant Water Bugs [Lethocerus indicus, which for [...]

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Cool new acquisition: Nsenene!

December 19th, 2008 · No Comments · cooking methods, exotics, grasshopper, katydids

A couple days ago I drove about an hour and bought nine bags of African grasshoppers.
I’d learned in October that a Ugandan community gets a shipment of grasshoppers in December. I knew that I’d want some of them, but I didn’t want to drive all that way for nothing. Since I’d lost the business card [...]

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Bread and Vodka (and new friends)

April 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment · colleagues, cooking methods, cricket, progress

Among the several new projects at SLS are two that have me working with new colleagues!
The first is insect flour. I’d worked with it a few years ago and wanted to do more with it. This speaks to the question of, “is it okay to transform the insect as part of processing it into food, [...]

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