Podcast: Wow factor
Another great podcast from Ento Nation. Cheryl Preyer of NACIA gave a talk at the Eating Insects Athens Conference back in August in which she spoke about “The Wow Factor”
Gourmet Pet Food
Interview with Serena Piva, founder of BauChef Let’s talk about the BauChef project The idea was born from the need to improve the diet and consequently the quality of life of my dog Goro, a Shiba Inu with a series of problems of food intolerances. To take care of him, we had to look for […]
Cooking insects in Iowa
Interview with Javon Latimore, photographer, entomologist and cooking instructor Tell us a little about you and how you met the edible insects world While attending Iowa State University, I learned that we have the 3rd largest entomological literature collection in the nation. I believe I was in the library the following few days exploring my […]
Les Criquets Migrateurs
Interview with Sebastien Collin and Annie Ruelle-Sanguine, founders of Les Criquets Migrateurs Tell us about how you firts became interested in edible insects Everything started in 2011, when the french news broadcasted a short documentary about edible insects in Laos. Sébastien was studying biology, and he was in the middle of deciding where his studies […]
Horizon Insects
Interview with Tiziana di Costanzo, co-founder of Horizon Insects How did you get involved with the edible insect world? All the way back in 1995, an old lady approached our taxi in Bangkok and offered us a little plastic bag full of beautiful emerald-green beetles. When she saw the puzzled expression on our faces, she […]
The MIGHTi project
Interview with Valerie Sull, cofounder of Mighti Tell us about the project Mighti MIGHTi –which stands for the Mission to Improve Global Health Through Insects- is a collaborative research project housed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. We use robust, interdisciplinary research to investigate the social, environmental, and health implications of insect agriculture and entomophagy. […]
Insects feed from Portugal
Interview with Daniel Murta, Entogreen founder Tell us how you got involved in the insects world and how the project Entogreen started This project started in 2012, at first focusing on Tenebrio Molitor (TM) for food. At the time I was doing my Veterinary Medicine PhD and it was very difficult to have such a […]