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.
