>Does anybody suppose that there might be an economic >reason why we don't eat bugs? Or is it just a case of >there being no accounting for taste? > >Curiously yours, >jsh
Dear Armchair Epicurean Entymologists: Seeing the Canadians and Russians smoke the Americans in Olympic pairs figure-skating has got me thinking: maybe John Hull is onto something! The U.S. may be the world's only superpower, but in the bug-eat department, we lag sadly behind much of the rest of the world. If the cause is cultural, perhaps the cure is economic. I propose that Americans will start eating bugs when CBS's "Survivor" starts to include people from bug-eating countries in the mix. If you'd like to begin training, you might look into these books: Man Eating Bugs, by Peter Menzel, Faith D'Aluisio http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1580080227/qid=1013819760/sr=8-5/ref=sr_8_7_5/002-6511335-9014426 Eat-A-Bug Cookbook, by David George Gordon http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0898159776/ref=pd_sim_books/002-6511335-9014426 Creepy Crawly Cuisine : The Gourmet Guide to Edible Insects by Julieta Ramos-Elorduy, Peter Menzel (Photographer) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/089281747X/ref=pd_sim_books/002-6511335-9014426 Report your results to Armchair...and to your HMO. Bon Appétit, Carl Close
