SC - Entomophagy
lilinah at earthlink.net
lilinah at earthlink.net
Mon Mar 20 22:51:43 PST 2000
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
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