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Book ReviewsEat-A-Bug Cookbook |
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Book: Eat-A-Bug Cookbook
Written by: David George Gordon |
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Average Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5
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The ideal gift
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5 / 5
The ideal gift for your mother-in-law
Fun and tasty!
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5 / 5
While I originally bought this as a gag gift for my wife (no pun intended), once we tried some of the recipes we found that we really enjoyed it. Even our son has taken a liking to the recipes (so far, crickets are his favorite). If you can get past your initial apprehension, you'll really enjoy the recipes. Oddly enough, I've also found that I'm no longer asked to bring in dishes for our carry-ins at work.
A Fondness for Beetles
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4 / 5
When British scientist J.B.S. Haldane was asked what could be inferred about the Almighty from a lifelong study of nature, he replied (given that there are 400,000 species of beetles, compared with only 8,000 species of mammals) that God must have ?an inordinate fondness for beetles.? If beetles and other insects are so abundant, why doesn?t everyone eat bugs instead of plants, fish, birds, and chemically-fattened mammals? As explained in this prankish yet valuable guide to entomophagy (Latin for ?bug-eating?), we already eat insects, inadvertently, in the sense that the FDA?s food safety regulations allow up to 60 aphids in 3 1/2 ounces of frozen broccoli, 74 mites in 100 grams of canned mushrooms, and so on. They can?t be completely kept out of our food, and, so long as we don?t know we?re eating them, they?re not only tasty, they?re rich in nutrients (a grasshopper, for example, is more than 20 per cent protein, and crickets are an excellent source of calcium). This parody of a typical cookbook concludes with a 3-page list of suppliers of edible anthropods (whether live or ready to serve), manufacturers of exotic toothpicks, and organizations that sponsor bug-eating extravaganzas. The author, who has a weakness for bad puns (among his recipes are ?Party Pupae,? ?Three Bee Salad,? ?Pest-O,? and ?Fried Green Tomato Horn Worm?), has written such earlier popular books as The Compleat Cockroach and Field Guide to the Slug (which the New York Times described as ?gripping?). (Review from Ballast Quarterly Review, Vol 14 No 2 Winter 1998-99)
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