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...
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Nov 11, 2021
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...
Oct 20, 2021
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...
Oct 14, 2021
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...
Oct 4, 2021
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...
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