March 31st, 2009 by David Gracer · News
Last Saturday [3/28/09] I sat down with Jeff Stewart — Canadian Insect Chef Extraordinaire — and the great Marc Dennis, future co-founder of www.INSECTSAREFOOD.com, for our ‘Trans-National Entomophagists’ Summit’. This took place in Patty and George’s yard not so far from Syracuse NY, and we spoke of many matters relating to our future commitments to spread the elegant logic and fun of insect consumption.
I’ve put two San Franciscans in touch with each other, and they might be working together later this year.
I know of several folks in Nebraska, in Texas, and in several other parts of our country and the rest of the world, who could and perhaps will be making progress on plans together.
Creating community is what it’s all about. Each person curious to do more with entomophagy will be able to do more with company around. Each person is not the only one out there. Speaking as someone who felt kind of lonely feeling this way, I know that it’s a powerful thing to create community.
This is a major part of my new mission.
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March 27th, 2009 by David Gracer · News
From bugs to tripe to tongue, one person’s ‘Fear Factor’ is another person’s delicacy
By Deborah Allard Herald News Staff Reporter, Posted Mar 26, 2009 @ 10:33 AM,
Fall River —The American palette has become wild and complicated, maybe due to the limitless variety of foods available, the exotic appetite of a continually changing immigrant population, or the television shows that tout interesting ingredients.
Whatever the reason, it seems people really will eat anything. From crickets to kangaroo meat, it’s on America’s menu.
“You can mix crickets into a stir fry. They’re used as a replacement for shrimp or chicken,” said David Gracer, a Providence man who believes more people should consume insects as a way to healthy eating and because it can sustain the earth’s resources.
Bugs, he said, take a lot less food, water and space to farm, and they’re high in protein, vitamins and minerals, and low in fat. And, after all, they’re not gross, they’re the “land cousins of the crustaceans,” Gracer said.
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