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    Edible: An Adventure into the World of Eating Insects and the Last Great Hope to Save the Planet
    Edible: An Adventure into the World of Eating Insects and the Last Great Hope to Save the Planet
    Edible: An Adventure into the World of Eating Insects and the Last Great Hope to Save the Planet
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    Edible: An Adventure into the World of Eating Insects and the Last Great Hope to Save the Planet

    Written by Daniella Martin

    Narrated by Daniella Martin

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    About this audiobook

    Insects. They’re what’s for dinner. Can you imagine a world in which that simple statement is not only true but in fact an unremarkable part of daily life? Daniella Martin, entomophagist and blogger, can.

    In this rollicking excursion into the world of edible insects, Martin takes us to the front lines of the next big trend in the global food movement and shows us how insects just might be the key to solving world hunger. Along the way, we sample moth larvae tacos at the Don Bugito food cart in San Francisco, travel to Copenhagen to meet the experimental tasters at Noma’s Nordic Food Lab, gawk at the insects stocked in the frozen food aisle at Thailand’s Costco, and even crash an underground bug-eating club in Tokyo.

    Martin argues that bugs have long been an important part of indigenous diets and cuisines around the world, and investigates our own culture’s bias against their use as a food source. She shines a light on the cutting-edge research of Marcel Dicke and other scientists who are only now beginning to determine the nutritional makeup of insects and champion them as an efficient and sustainable food source.

    Whether you love or hate bugs, Edible will radically change the way you think about the global food crisis and perhaps persuade you that insects are much more than a common pest. For the adventurous, the book includes an illustrated list of edible insects, recipes, and instructions on how to raise bugs at home.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateFeb 11, 2014
    ISBN9781480555679
    Edible: An Adventure into the World of Eating Insects and the Last Great Hope to Save the Planet
    Author

    Daniella Martin

    DANIELLA MARTIN is a certified entomophagist, or bug-eating expert. She has been featured in the Huffington Post, The New Yorker, The Wall Streeet Journal, SF Weekly, AOL News and has inspired an episode of The Simpsons. www.girlmeetsbug.com

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    • 4/5
      Enjoyed this book. The writer is engaging and opened the doors to additional reading on this subject. The read is fun and never boring. Eating insects worldwide (which we all do now in some form due to the FDA guidelines)in the near future could be the answer that will feed and add to our current food supply. When living in areas of the world where the food supply is lacking in nutritional values insects can certainly add to the table. Food is food and its only our discomfort with insects (we so called civilized society) which keeps our minds closed to this issue. I gave it four stars only because I would have enjoyed viewing a few pictures of her on her expeditions to the food stalls or farms trips to buy insects when visiting Mexico, Thailand and all the other counties she went. Highly recommend this book - its fun!I must state that this is the first book I ever won and received from Goodreads. My review of this book in no way was affected by this and should this writer publish again - I would not hesitate to buy.