Interviews 241
Camola: sustainable insects bakery
Interview with Claudio La Rocca, Camola co-founder How did you get into the word of edible insects? Everything started about 2 years ago. One of our colleagues brought some dried grasshoppers during a meeting. The idea of eating insects was completely new to us, but we decided to try them anyway. The taste was not […]
IPAA: Insect Protein Association Australia
Interview with Olympia Yarger, President of the Insect Protein Association of Australia (IPAA) A brief presentation of IPAA The IPAA aims to promote positive, practical and industry relevant regulation and governance that will benefit Insect Farmers, Insect protein suppliers, and retailers whilst upholding the clean and green brand of Australian producer. What are your short-term […]
Selling edible insects through the web
The project is ambitious: bring to the european consumers a selection of the best made-in EU products with edible insects. This is the goal of 21Bites. The new eshop platform opened its shop with the first Collections that we’ll be upgraded in the next weeks with other items. Check out our interview to Davide Rossi, […]
21Bites: the first e-shop in Europe for edible insects
Interview with Davide Rossi, 21Bites co-founder Tell us how the project 21Bites began I am a curious person, so when a few years ago I discovered the topic “edible insects” I immediately tried to deepen it, but I realized that there were not many information sources, even on the web. My first project was Crunchy […]
Jimini’s: the French (food) Revolution
Interview with Raphaëlle Browayes, communication manager of Jimini’s Tell us about how Jimini’s moved its first steps in the edible insects industry While they were watching a famous French reality show where candidates have to eat insects alive, Bastien Rabastens and Clement Scellier, two childhood friends, got curious! They decided to taste insects, but when […]
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 […]
Little Food: crickets from Belgium
Interview with Raphael Dupriez, co-founder of Little Food Tell us shortly about Little Food and how you got involved in the edible insects industry Maïté and me started 4 years ago, hands in the mud and hope in the mind. As young bio-engineers coming out of the studies we wanted to do something great in […]