Forget protein bars. For a nutritious snack, consider popping a few grasshoppers. Or a handful of ants, perhaps? While the thought of chowing on arthropods might make your skin crawl, consider this: A ...

MENZEL: It's the study of the consumption of insects. And we went to - I went with my wife, Faith D'Aluisio, co-author, to 13 countries. We ate hundreds of insects with scores of people and ...

Students in the Netherlands have made the world's biggest insect pie to mark the publishing of the first Dutch insect cook book. TODAY.com's Dara Brown reports.April 18, 2012 ...

In case your standby recipes are getting a little stale, a new show dedicated to cooking with bugs will introduce you to a few you likely haven’t tried. On Monday, Smithsonian Earth launched its first ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – A chef in Connecticut is looking forward to the upcoming cicada invasion, and the chance to try out a few recipes for the insects. Bun Lai, owner of Miya's Sushi in New Haven, is ...

A visit to Chinatown is never complete without a lengthy search for roasted scorpions or fried ants. A delicacy to some cultures, Canadians largely consider eating bugs to be a weird novelty at best, ...

It is advised to ensure they come from proper stores that will be selling fresh and correctly prepared insects as some that you may find yourself could be toxic. With suspicions set aside here are the ...

A report from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization says insects offer a huge potential for improving the world's food security. Peter Menzel, co-author of Man Eating Bugs, describes some ...