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[dragonladyflame]

A while back I found myself in the middle of a conversation wondering how people who eat bugs, hunt bugs. I mean, they must hunt bugs in order to eat them, right? Half an hour of fruitless Internet research later, I determined that the answer might be in the book Man Eating Bugs: the Art and Science of Eating Insects by Peter Menzel and Faith D'

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[dragonladyflame]

Bug-eating will take over the world.

[dragonladyflame]

When I have kids, I want Aunt Eisa to come over and teach them to do that.

[dragonladyflame]

P.S. I'm in NY now, tried sending an email.

[basseykay]

I recently read an old National Geographic article from 2004 which talked about how the Paiute indians would herd wingless morman crickets into trenches, cover them with straw, and then burn the straw, cooking the crickets alive. The cooked bugs were than ground into meal and either used as or added to flour (it wasn't clear to me which).

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/07/0715_040715_tvinsectfood.html

[dragonladyflame]

Wow. Complicated methodology.

Supposedly crickets (and lobsters) don't feel pain the way we do, but I still ... the live cooking thing ... ugh.