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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Embracing Entomophagy
A Meal Moth in Every Pantry, a Chinch Bug in Every Pot
Who Eats Bugs?
The Benefits of Bug Eating
Shouldn’t Everyone Eat Bugs?
Government-Approved Entomophagy
About the Recipes
Say No to Raw Bugs
The Live Ingredients
Cooking Techniques
Choice Cuts
Growing Your Own Bugs
Beware of Bad Bugs
The Best Beverages for Bugs
Part One: Don’t Worry, Be Hoppy: Nine Culinary Leaps of Faith, Using Crickets, Grasshoppers, and Their Kin
Locusts in Leviticus
Beating the Bush for Big Bugs
Chapter 1: Cooking with Crickets
Niblets and Cricklets
Orthopteran Orzo
Chirpy Chex Party Mix
Crispy Crickets
Cricket Seasoning à la Vij’s
Bugs in a Rug
Chocolate Cricket Torte
Chapter 2: Grilled Grasshoppers, Creamed Katydids, and Locusts Lovingly Prepared
Cream of Katydid Soup
Oaxacan Whoppers
St. John’s Bread
Sheesh! Kabobs
Really Hoppin’ John
Chapulines con Chocolate Fondue
Part Two: Togetherness: A Selection of Social Insects for Special Occasions
Chapter 3: Tantalizing Termites (The Other White Meat)
Curried Termite Stew
Termite Treats
Chapter 4: Beginning with Bees
Steering Clear of Stings
Bounteous Bees
Glory Bee
Three Bee Salad
Bee’s Knees
Chapter 5: Ants On (and In) the House
Ant-Acid
Ant Jemima’s Buckwheat-Bug Griddlecakes
Amaretto Honeypots
Ants in Pants
Pear Salad with Chiangbai Ants
Part Three: Who’s Buggin’ Whom? Nine Ways to Turn the Tables on Household and Garden Pests
Rustling Up Some Grub
Make Mine Mopane
Chapter 6: Preparing Pantry Pests
Cockroach à la King
Larval Latkes (a.k.a. Grubsteaks)
Chapter 7: Garden Grazers Alfresco
Wasabi Wax Worms
Superworm Tempura with Plum Dipping Sauce
Fried Green Tomato Hornworms
Piz-zz-zz-za
Pest-o
Alpha-Bait Soup
White Chocolate and Wax Worm Cookies
Part Four: Side Orders: A Smorgasbord of Treats from Assorted Arthropod Taxa
Chapter 8: Spineless Delights
Healing Bugs of Yore
Giant Water Bug on Watercress
Watermelon and Water Bug Surprise
Sweet and Sour Silkworm
Ample Drumsticks
Spin-akopita
Sky Prawn
Odonate Hors d’Oeuvres
Scorpion Scaloppine
Party Pupae
Deep-Fried Tarantula Spider
Resources
For More Information
Suppliers of Edible Arthropods
Sellers of Prepared Edible Arthropods
Suppliers of Arthropod Care and Collecting Gear
Sponsors of Bug-Eating Events
Helpful Websites
About the Author
Index
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