Entries Tagged as 'exotics'

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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Big Ants 2008!

April 30th, 2008 · No Comments · ants, exotics

It’s True. The Great Penny came through for the second year in a row!! Her weekend off from work coincided with a thunderstorm or two in Southern Texas, and she was able to gather a mess of queen leaf-cutter ants. In fact she included [on her livejournal] a description of what she had [...]

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