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Giacomo Nieri joined our team at L’Entomofago
My name is Giacomo Nieri, I have a Master’s Degree in Food Management and today I will start my collaboration with “L’Entomofago”, dealing with China. My passion for edible insects started when I was reading books on Chinese medicine several years ago, then I really got into Entomophagy. Actually, China has 20% of the globe’s […]
Anna Rettore joined our team at L’Entomofago
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.” – Charles Darwin Insects are adaptation-champions, and humankind should follow their example. The use of alternative protein will be necessary soon, and insects are strong candidates which should be taken into […]
AFFIA (Asean Food and Feed Insects Association): the first meeting
We talked with Massimo Reverberi, founder of Bugsolutely and one of the promoters of the newborn AFFIA (Asean Food and Feed Insects Association), to get an impression on the work of the first Meeting held in Bangkok. “We had a difficult project start-up, because in Thailand it didn’t take off. So, also to “increase the […]
Entomophagy is an instrument, not only products
Who knows what an inhabitant of Palermo thought after seeing for the first time an Arab eating a qas’at? Or when he saw him combining rice and meat with his own hands to create a little ball? Maybe it was something like: “These Arabs do not even use forks, they eat on the streets with their […]
Michela Bertola joined our team at L’Entomofago
“No sensible person is interested in the flies, and above all, not the girls.” – Fredrik Sjöberg (swedish writer, biologist and entomologist), Flugfällan (The Fly-Trap) Nya Doxa, 2004 My name is Michela Bertola , I am attending the last year of Veterinary Medicine and I like insects. So I think to be the exception to Sjöberg’s steatment. […]
Protix: ingredients market is picking up fast
Interview with Kees Aarts, founder and CEO of Protix Tell us shortly about how you get involved in the edible insects world and how the Protix project began When I was young I was already breeding insect and feeder animals for my reptiles and birds. I even did a ‘backyard safari’ several times to collect […]
Simone Zucchi joined our team at L’Entomofago
Hi everyone, my name is Simone, I was born in Milan and I am living in Sicily since 10 years now, I have a degree in agrarian engineering with a real passion for entomophagy, since I developed a thesis about edible insects. My all studies have been encouraged by a great pioneer on entomophagy Vincent […]
