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Are Insects the Next Climate-Friendly Superfood?

By Anastasia Pantsios Ecowatch.com March 19th, 2015   Maybe you’ve see little cans of chocolate-covered ants or grasshoppers in the exotic food section of your grocery and thought to yourself, “Yuck—who eats that?” Insects may not come to mind when you think of superfoods. But they could be the next hot “alternative” protein. They’re low in …

Future Food Salon. Tastes like Cricket.

Posted on August 29, 2014. Written by Lisa Vlasova Montreal Rampage Silence reigned save for the chirping of crickets as trendy guests slowly milled about. The experience began upon entry of the grounds shared by the Insectarium with Montreal’s Botanical Garden. Swiftly darkening skies couldn’t put a damper on the place’s beauty: the first light …

How American Cricket Farmers Raise Bugs for Us to Eat

BY  ELETTRA WIEDEMANN August 14, 2014 / 5:44 pm Vice Munchies I tend to go through sample trays like an open-mouthed freight train. You can imagine my delight when I was at a food conference earlier this year and there was a banquet table overflowing with food samples. I ate my way through the entire …

Could insects be a part of your local diet?

By Kelsey Lee and Kiran Gill July 8th, 2014 Bold Magazine   Take a couple of grad students, toss in some crunchy insects, a dash of social media and a whole lot of intrigue and you’ve got yourself a culturally curious concoction waiting to start an interesting dialogue… in western cultures that is. In certain …

Edible crickets come to Youngstown

Stan Boney Published: July 3, 2014, 8:48 pm WYTV   YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WYTV) — A Wisconsin native has opened a business in Youngstown, but it’s not a bar, restaurant or retail shop. It is a warehouse near Star Supply on Mahoning Avenue, close to downtown, where crickets are being raised for humans to eat. That’s …

Small, Noisy, Crawly and Delicious Crickets

Friday, June 20, 2014 By Dan O’Brien The Business Journal   YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Kevin Bachhuber unzips the vinyl panel of a large square tent and peels back the insulated fabric that reveals a Mylar-laced chamber. Inside are some really noisy inhabitants. These inhabitants are in plastic storage bins – the same ones you buy …