Cooking ...... with bugs

Beyond just a novelty, Chef David George Gordon’s interest lies in sustainability. The concept of eating insects as food is called entomophagy. One of his most popular lecture topics explores the next big revolution in food production, which essentially replaces beef, chicken and pork with eco-friendly critters like crickets, mealworms, spiders, centipedes, and more. Raising cattle and other animals requires a tremendous amount of resources, whereas insects are far less taxing on the environment. Gordon cites that to an estimated 80% of the world’s cultures, bugs are just another food group.  Bugs can be a great source of protein and nutrients, although Gordon always recommends exercising caution when first cooking with bugs. To begin, if you’re allergic to crab, lobster, or shrimp, there is a good chance you’ll also be allergic to bugs. One thing to also keep in mind, you always want to avoid harvesting bugs from places that use pesticide. Eating bugs that have eaten pesticide is essentially eating the pesticide itself. Chef Gordon purchases his bugs from a supplier in Austin, Texas, called Aspire.

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Irn Bru wrote:I'd have to be seriously starving to cough and splutter that type of stuff down my throat. We Scot's are used to a healthy diet of Haggis, mince pies, tatties, Chips and I hear deep fried mars bars although I've never ever seen or tried one

With that I'm away up the club for a pint, and anyway my subscription for this year is due again.

Original Quill wrote:WTF...isn't a crustacean a kind of bug...sortuv?

veya_victaous wrote:

Original Quill wrote:
WTF...isn't a crustacean a kind of bug...sortuv?

Arachnid actually
Crabs and Lobsters are just Sea Spiders    

6 legs + 2 claws =  8 limbs

Lone Wolf wrote:



http://www.pinayhomeschooler.com/2014/06/the-arthropods-materials-free-files.html

If you’d been around 520 million years ago and been living at the bottom of the ocean, you would not have wanted to stumble across the extinct creature scientists just identified from fossil records as belonging to the group known as “great appendage arthropods.” It was surely an ugly beast—shaped something like a spider, something like a lobster, with great tusk-like forelimbs. That said, it was also only about an inch long. Still, if you’d indeed in fact been living in its world, you might not have been much bigger, and that would have made it a fearsome sight.

Today, the little animal is mostly a matter of scientific interest, and in this week’s Nature, investigators took a run at determining just who its contemporary kin are. Does it belong in the branch of the arthropod tree currently occupied by the crustaceans, including crabs and lobsters? Or does it fit with the chelicerae, the group that includes scorpions and spiders?

darknessss wrote:

darknessss wrote:listen ...ANYTHING with more than 4 legs is just un-natural......and despite what the nutters of the gastronomic world say eating it is just .......wrong....

yetch......

darknessss wrote:SNAILS...eeeeww....they are simply garlic flavoured bits of rubber.....and besides which the french invented them...says it all really..... mind you i suppose 20 million thrushes (and my chickens) cant be wrong ......can they?