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(from Greek ἔντομος éntomos, "insect(ed)",
and φᾰγεῖν phăgein, "to eat", which together means "insect eating")
is the practice of eating insects as food

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see also

Taboo Food and Drink

  video Eating Insects

Wikipedia:
Entomophagy
Ethnoentomology
Insectivore
Taboo food and drink
Chapulines -- Mexico
Atta laevigata [leafcutter ants]

the News . . .

• Cooking With Cicadas: No Weirder Than Eating Cheese? -- NPR (29 May 2013)
  
  
• U.N. Urges Eating Insects; 8 Popular Bugs to Try -- National Geographic News (14 May 2013)
  
  
• Maybe It's Time To Swap Burgers For Bugs, Says U.N. -- NPR (14 May 2013)
  
  
• To save the planet, chow down on a caterpillar -- New Scientist (14 May 2013)
  
  
• Can I Eat That? -- NOVA scienceNOW (31 October 2012)
  
  
• There Are No Winners in Competitive Eating Contents -- Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (18 October 2012)
  
  
• Man dies after cockroach-eating competition -- BBCNews (8 October 2012)
  
  
• Florida man dies after winning roach-eating contest -- CNN U.S. (9 October 2012)
  
  
• Edible Insects: Getting to the Good Stuff -- Discovery News (22 November 2011)

• B.A.B.E.S. -- Bay Area Bug Eating Society
  
  
• 10 Things Snack Food Companies Won't Say -- SmartMoney (15 November 2010)

 

"An Ohio University fact sheet estimates that we eat from one to two pounds of insects each year, and without knowing it."



• Brace yourself: There's filth in the food you eat -- Charles Stuart Platkin,  News-Leader.com, (15 February 2005)
  
  
• video: Bugs for Breakfast: Food & Culture (19 min., 2001, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia GT2850 .B84 2001 DVD)
  
  
• Bugs you can eat -- NOVA
  
  
• Colombia's big-butt ants entice gourmets -- Joshua Goodman, Associated Press, USAToday (14 August 2006)
  
  
• Critters on the Menu
  
  
• Crunchy, Big-Butt Ants Entice Gourmands -- Joshua Goodman, Associated Press, Discovery Channel (14 August 2006)
  
  
• DeFoliart, Gene R. (2002-09-29). "The Human Use of Insects as a Food Resource: A Bibliographic Account in Progress". University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  
  
• Edible Insects East Africa -- Shigemi Yagi
  
  
• ENTOMOPHAGY WEBSITE LINKS -- Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota
  
  
• Five Reasons to Eat Insects -- Anna Rothschild, NOVA scienceNOW (13 June 2012)
  
  
• The Food Defect Action Levels -- Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, U. S. Food and Drug Administration
  
  
• The Food Insects Newsletter
  
  
• For Most People, Eating Bugs Is Only Natural -- Sharon Guynup and Nicolas Ruggia (15 July 2004)
  
  
• "Gonna Eat That?," The Meaning of Food, PBS
  
  
• Gordon, David. Eat-a-bug Cookbook: 33 ways to cook grasshoppers, ants, water bugs, spiders, centipedes, and their kin. Ten Speed Press, 1998.
  
  
• Greenfield, Amy Butler. A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire. NY: HarperCollins, 2005.
  
  
• How Many Insect Parts and Rodent Hairs are Allowed in Your Food?
  More Than You Think ... and Maybe Than You Want to Know! -- ww.SixWise.com, (29 June 2005)
  
  
• In northern Colombia, a hunt for gourmet big-butt ants -- John Otis, GlobalPost (11 May 2011)
  
  
• Insects -- BBCNews
  
  
• "Insects as Human Food" -- William F. Lyon, Ohio State University
  
  
• In the Hunt for the Big-Butt Ant Delicacy-- PRI's The World (16 May 2011)
  
  
• Eating Big-Ass Ants -- Little Colombia Observationist (19 April 2011)
  
  
• Man Bites Insects -- SAM NEJAME, The New York Times (February 10, 2008)
  
  
• Menzel, Peter. Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects. Material World, 2004.
  
  
• Ramos-Elorduy, Julieta. Creepy Crawly Cuisine: The Gourmet Guide to Edible Insects.
  Park Street, 1998.
  
  
• Scorpon Bites -- Phillip R. Johnson
  
  
• Thai Insects Eaten for Snacks -- Thai supermarket online
  
  
• There's Crap in Our Food. Literally -- Lloyd Alter, treehugger.com (17 February 2009)
  
  
• U.S. FDA: Food Defect Action Levels
  
  
• Use of Insects by Australian Aborigines -- Ron Cherry, American Entomologist (32: 8-13)
  
  
• Weird Meat -- a food and travel blog
  
  
• What's in your meal?: Really want to know? Read on. But wait, perhaps, until after breakfast -- E. J. Levy, StarTribune.com, 18 February 2009
  
  
• What Is Fried and Has Six Legs? Welcome to Insect Cuisine -- Judith Newman, The New York Times (20 May 1992)
  
  
• Why Not Eat Insects (1885 pamphlet) by Vincent Holt, with French cuisine recipes
  
  
• www.food-insects.com

Tacos de Chapuline

(Grasshopper Tacos)

1/2 pound medium-sized grasshoppers
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 lemon, juiced
Salt
2 ripe avocados, mashed
6 tortillas (corn or flour)

Roast grasshoppers for 10 minutes in a 350-degree oven. Toss with garlic, lemon juice, and salt to taste. Spread mashed avocado on tortilla. Sprinkle on roasted hoppers, to taste.

From "Eat the Beetles," a Review of

Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects
by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Alusio
Ten Speed Press, $19.95 paper

by Mick Vann