Bug Food 513
Worldwide list of edible insects
Edible insects doesn’t mean just crickets and grasshoppers. There are more than 2.000 species of edible insects around the world and you can find them in the list compiled by Mr. Yde Jongema, taxonomist at the Department of Entomology of Wageningen University&Research, the Netherlands. It’s a really accurate list, reporting the genus, the species, the […]
Opening an edible insects farm
More and more people contact us to ask for informations and advices on how to open an edible insects farming company. It’s a pleasure the subject moves this great interest, but things are not as easy as they seem. This is a business that you cannot improvise, you need expertises, investments, research, you have to […]
Crickerita: the pizza is ready!
As the academic year 2016-2017 comes to the end, it is fair to close it with the conclusive part of my most exciting adventure: Crickerita. The idea of Crickerita was born in January thanks to me and my colleague Stefano Fratoni, during the course “insects as food and feed”. Few months ago, we started to […]
The Coop case
Recently you had a delay in the distribution of your products in the Coop supermarkets across Switzerland. Can you better explain the reason? With the opening of the Swiss market all actors (breeders, local and foreign authorities, processors like us and supermarkets) entered in an unknown territory. When pioneering, things can go a bit differently […]
Master Bug: Tiramisù with cricket flour
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Brooklyn Bugs
Learn more about entomophagy from industry leaders and gain a cultural understanding and point of view from artists and visionaries who will be joining presentations and workshops. September 1-3, info here.