Interviews 241
Insects-oil as palm-oil substitute
Interview with Mushab Nursantio, co-founder of BiteBackInsect Tell us shortly about BiteBackInsect and how you get involved in the edible insects world Biteback was started in October 2015 as a student project for global competition “Thought For Food Challenge”. The idea came from my interest in entomphagy after reading the FAO report on edible insect […]
Master Bug: cooking at home with insects
Master Bug is the first italian site (and YouTube Channel) where you can find videorecipes to cook at home with edible insects. Master Bug is a project by Roberto Cavasin, a passionate of italian traditional way of cooking…but intentioned to mix tradition with these new ingredients. Master Bug’s recipes will be soon subtitled in english. Stay […]
“An insect in the plate” available in the bookshops
As entomophagy popularizer, I feel encouraged when I’m in front of two equally-stimulated and willing-to-repropose persons as I am. You got it right: re-propose, because human entomophagy it’s just forgotten, but had lived in the same places in which we’re living now. Entomophagy as “knowledge” able to translate flavors of the past, as man/nature balance, […]
Edible insects: are companies escaping from Italy?
It has been almost a year since our first interview with Marco Ceriani, founder of Italbugs. The Italian start-up is moving more and more towards foreign countries, so we wanted to understand more about that. In spite of your name, your company has been described as part of the brain-drain phenomenon, why? In Italy we […]
IPIFF: a task-force dedicated to insects as Novel Food
Interview with Antoine Hubert, Ceo of Ynsect and IPIFF President Tell us shortly about the vision you had and how that vision led to Ynsect Ynsect is an innovative company which is specialized in farming insects on a large scale and converting them into different compounds. These compounds, which are mainly proteins and lipids meet […]
Rossano Linassi: entomophagy in Brazil
Rossano Linassi is a young and solar brazilian chef who realizes delicious dishes with insects, participates in many TV shows, conferences and workshops. I contacted him and we have a long intercontinental chat conversation about edible insects and gastronomy. His enthusiasm is contagious and in few messages he involves you in his amazing reality! How […]
