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Bay Area Bug Eating Society (BABES)
San Francisco Entomophagists. Recipes, nutrition information, FAQs, and pictures.

Bert Christensen's Weird & Different Recipes: Locust Bisque
Cream soup recipe.

Bug-Eating
Various articles and links to using insects as food.

Bugfood!
Offers a variety of recipes and links to satisfy anyone's bug-filled food craving.

Cafe Insecta
Offers cooking classes and demonstrations. Includes photographs from several events and three sophisticated recipes featuring crickets.

Descending the Food Chain
An article in New Times, Broward-Palm Beach, Florida.

Dr. Frog's Recipe Page
Includes a 1687 description of a dish of Parcht Locusts, and directions for marinating bee grubs in coconut cream.

The Eat-A-Bug Cookbook
David G. Gordon shows 33 ways to cook grasshoppers, ants, water bugs, spiders, centipedes, and their kin. Buy, look through reviews, or read about the author.

Food Insects Newsletter
How-to articles about harvesting and preparing insects.

Fried Green Tomato Hornworms
Sample recipe from a cookbook by David George Gordon.

Grow-a-Brain: Entomophagy (Insect Eating) Archives
Blog with links and photographs covering all aspects of eating insects, from recipes to newspaper articles to personal experiences.

Insect Snacks from Around the World
From the University of Kentucky Department of Entomology.

Insects as Food
Information on the current importance and the future potential of insects as a global food resource.

Insects as Human Food
Hosted by Ohio State University. Entomologists, farmers and chefs who are promoting edible insects, a foodstuff better known in academic circles as "Microlivestock." Article, recipes, and nutritional information.

Iowa State University's Tasty Insect Recipes
Offers links to insect suppliers and a few of the tastiest recipes such as banana worm bread and chocolate chirpie chip cookies. Also provides nutrition information for some common insects.

Plutos Recipes
Small collection includes Mealworm Chocolate Chip Cookies and Stir Fried Cricket Curry.

Stalking the Wild: Eating Bugs
Discusses cooking methods for insects in various cuisines.

Survival.com - Eating Bugs
Article from Hoods Woods Survival Training Center.

Weird Foods: Bugs
Includes a list of insects and other arthropods eaten in various cuisines, and a few recipes including Banana Worm Bread and Cricket Chip Cookies.

Weird Recipe List
Recipes for odd dishes some including insects.

Woodlouse Recipes
Part of a page developed as a resource for Y13 Biology students. Recipes with pictures of each completed dish.

CNN: University Lures Kids with Chocolate-Covered Crickets
Review of Penn State University's 10th annual Great Insect Fair. (October 6, 2002)

MSU News: If You Like Crawdad Jambalaya, Why Not Cricket Jambalaya?
Review of the Montana State University Enytomology Department's annual "Hopper Fry" event. (January 8, 2000)

Outside Magazine: It's Hard to Eat Just One
Author Ian Frazier waxes poetic about the joys of eating mayflies. (April, 1997)

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