Interviews 241
Studying Sustainable Nutrition at the University of Teramo
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A short talk with Marco Ceriani, founder of Italbugs, on the new product Xdutch Tell us how the idea of a product in capsules was born I’ve always been working on sports supplements, in the ’90s with my company and then as a consultant for many italian companies. Supplements are special foods, destined for a niche […]
Pasta and bacon: but it’s seaweed
Interview with Willem Sodderland, founder of Seamore Tell us what was the first time you got in touch with the edible seaweed issue Well, I ordered a seaweed salad and couldn’t find the seaweed. The chef set me straight: what looked like spinach tagliatelle was actually the seaweed, a special species that grows on the […]
The plastic-eating worms
Interview with Dr. Federica Bertocchini, Biomedicine Institute of Cantabria You’ve recently discovered an astonishing “talent” of the Galleria Mellonella larvae. Can you tell us more about? With my collaborators Paolo Bombelli and Chris Howe, at the University of Cambridge, UK, we discovered that the wax worm can bio-degrade polyethylene, the plastic of the garbage bags […]
Italian gourmet pasta with edible insects
Interview with Emilio Calligaris, co-founder of Spagrillo Tell us briefly how you came in the edible insect business. We’re two recent graduates in “Agricultural sciences” passionate about entomophagy. We started to work on processed products a couple of years ago, in order to make the insect attractive for the European customers. On November 2015 we […]
Cooking with insects made easy
Interview with Anouk Zoet and Julien Zimmer, co-founders of Oh my bug Tell us how you got involved in the edible insects world 2 years ago, Julien had to do some research about entomophagy for his work as a video journalist. Because of that, we started to read more and more articles explaining the environmental […]
Edible insects: is SouthEast Asia the place to be?
Interview with Nicolas Bery, founder of Bery Consulting Tell us how you got involved in the edible insects world This adventure started in 2013 when during my holidays in France I was at a dinner, and a friend of mine told me that he heard some students in Malaysia were experimenting on edible insects for […]
