Boochi

The Boochi Cookout

On a bright Saturday afternoon in November, I invited a few people who have been a part of my journey through Serendipity Art...

Women, Evolution and Insects as Food

I spoke to the world's only entomophagy anthropologist, Julie Lesnik, about her book "Edible Insects and Human Evolution" and in...

Could This Insect That Feeds On Decomposing Food Waste Be The Future Of Food?

The Black Solider Fly has fascinated me for some time now. My initial attraction to the fly was because the larvae would decompose my...

Could Bug-Based Pet Food Help Curb Climate Change?

I spent the week intermittently researching the subject from a global perspective, and this journal reflects some of what I found, with...

Failure as Flavor

I set out to ferment weaver ants using koji and a rice cooker for the very first time in my life - and of course, I failed. But what...

How to Harvest Weaver Ants

Field Notes of a (Very) Amateur Urban Forager The first time I harvested a weaver ant nest I had ants in my pants. Literally. Let me...

Hungry for Insects

What did our ancestors eat? How did they augment their nutrition? What were their secrets? These are some of the questions I was thinking...

Why aren't we just eating locusts?

During the lockdown in India, there were reports of massive swarms of Locusts destroying crops in the northwest of the country and...