SC - cooking times

[Par Leijonhufvud]

I've been kicking myself for passing up this book, several years ago, 
in a secondhand bookstore. As i recall it was written by a scientist 
at either JPL (that's the Jet Propulsion Lab) or CalTech in Pasadena, 
with instructions on how to raise insects for food (meal worms are a 
big item there), and recipes by his wife...

Butterflies in My Stomach: Insects in Human Nutrition, by Ronald L. Taylor

...sadly no longer in print, and i don't think i'm ready to set up 
the boxes to raise the larvae in...

In addition, a quick search at Amazon turns up:

* Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects, by Peter 
Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio
(has some very... arresting... photographs)

* Creepy Crawly Cuisine: The Gourmet Guide to Edible Insects, by 
Julieta Ramos-Elorduy, photographs by Peter Menzel

* Eat-A-Bug Cookbook, by David George Gordon

* Entertaining With Insects : The Original Guide to Insect Cookery, 
by the Entomological Society of America

and an anthropological paper:
* Insects As Food: Aboriginal Entomophagy in the Great Basin (Ballena 
Press Anthropological Papers, No. 33)  by Mark Q. Sutton

I remember a discussion of food taboos by anthropologist Marvin 
Harris, which including a contrast of cultures that eat bugs vs. 
those that have taboos against them. I think it was in his book:
"The Sacred Cow and the Abominable Pig: Riddles of Food and Culture"

He has quite a few other interesting books on cultural variety, and 
another couple books of culture and food that i haven't read, such as:
"Food and Evolution: Toward a Theory of Human Food Habits"
and
"Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture".

Anahita
no flies on me, they're not halal