Eating Insects
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, […]
Entomophagy and italian consumers: an exploratory analysis
Methods: the experiment involved a mixed group of Italian individuals (n=46) –in terms of age and gender– who tasted three species of edible insects (cricket, honeycomb moth and grasshopper) and afterwards were handed a questionnaire to explore their opinions on the subject of entomophagy. Results: the analysis shows that curiosity and environmental benefits are the […]
Farming edible insects in a Cube
Interview with Janne Koskenniemi, EntoCube How did you get involved in the edible insects business? Our core team consists of people with different backgrounds and different stories of how they became involved with insect business. We have enthusiastic travelers and excellent chefs like Perttu and Otto, people with a lot of experience on studying insect […]
Eat Grub: the new edible insects cookbook
On April 7th Eat Grub will be launching The Ultimate Insect Cookbook. Featuring over 55 excitin grecipes from Seb Holmes, it takes inspiration from around the world to present a range of small plates, meals, desserts and even cocktails using whole and ground insects. It teaches you how to use insect flours to make healthy, gluten-free and […]
Edible insects: multidisciplinary collaborations to achieve common goals
Interview with Ana C. Day, founder of 4Ento Is the international edible insects sector in the right way to a full success? Like other sectors did, the international edible insect sector will have to face and work around all the usual development challenges, plus our own distinctive challenges which are unique to edible insects. Hopefully we will learn […]