Novel Food 521
When a beetle inspires a story
Interview with M. G. Leonard, author of “Beetle Boy” Can you tell us a bit about the `Beetle Boy’s’ story? The Beetle Boy of the title is Darkus Cuttle, and at the beginning of the book, his father has mysteriously disappeared from an entomology vault at the Natural History Museum in London. He’s sent to […]
The University of Alicante bets on flies
Interview with Yelitza Velasquez, BioFlyTech Tell us about BioFlyTech project Bioflytech is a Technology Based Company of the University of Alicante. Our company develops products and procedures related with the artificial rearing of insects. Bioflytech offers solutions from the Biotechnology to the growing demand of alternative proteins and effective pollinators. Our products are raw materials […]
The edible insects industry needs to meet also a “less-privileged” target
Interview with David Gorge Gordon, The Bug Chef Let’s know about your passion for using edible insects in the kitchen: how did everything start? I became interested in edible insects in the mid-1990s, while researching my book The Compleat Cockroach. Among other things, that book contained brief essays on cockroaches as food and as medicine. […]
Edible insects: how communication overcomes the yuk-factor
Interview to Fabio Verneau and Francesco La Barbera, Professors at the University of Naples You are one of the authors of the recent study “The effect of communication and the implicit associations in the consumption of insects: an experiment in Italy and Denmark.” Can you sum up its content and goals? In recent years researchers have […]
Bars and crickets: the perfect binomial
Interview with Gabi Lewis, cofounder of EXO How and when did you have the idea to run an edible insects business? Greg, my co-founder, and I had met while we were studying at Brown University. He had just come back from a conference hosted by MIT and the Dalai Lama on climate change and resource scarcity, […]