If chewing on a fried tarantula leg or biting into a crispy grasshopper makes you cringe, you could be missing out. More than a quarter of the global population regularly munches on edible insects.

We have some fancy names for certain styles of foods such as charcuterie for a tray of appetizers and etouffee for shrimp stew. Shall we move on to “entomophagy” for ...

They hop. They crawl. They squirm. And they could be coming to a dinner plate near you. An increasing number of "entopreneurs" are launching businesses to feed a growing appetite for crickets, ...

Experts say that if people in the United States and Europe can get over the "ick", edible insects could revolutionise food ...

The World Bank estimates that our planet is home to almost seven billion humans. In order to put something on the global dinner table each night, we farm approximately 50 billion chickens, 1.3 billion ...

It’s true that humans’ affinity for meat—especially beef, lamb, pork and to a lesser extent chicken—takes a huge toll on the environment given the resources and emissions expended to rear and then ...

When tongchart nusu, a food distributor in Phitsanulok, Thailand, yanks open the heavy steel door of his cold-storage locker, you get the expected burst of snowy frost-along with a moist, overpowering ...

Idaho gardeners know that one of the things they must deal with every growing season is bugs. Some bugs and insects are beneficial, pollinating plants and eating some of the bad bugs that are out to ...

It’s a bug’s world, and we’re just living in — and now eating — it. Credit (or blame) environmentalists. Or the push for healthier diets. Or the Internet. Regardless, cooking with insects — especially ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Growing up in Mexico City, it was common for Jose Avila to snack on the edible bugs at the markets around town with his grandma and mom after school. So, the ...