Eating Insects Might Not Save the World, But It Could be a Healthy Start Gary M. Kramer - Salon
go to original April 13, 2016

A teaser for Andreas Johnsen's upcoming film, BUGS (BUGSfeed)

Can eating bugs save the world? Or can it at least help with sustainability, the slow food movement, and creating bio-diverse systems?

Andreas Johnsen’s fascinating (although for some, disgusting) documentary, “Bugs,” which will receive its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, investigates the work of the Nordic Food Lab in Denmark where Ben Reade and Josh Evans try to make bugs tastier.

The pair do fieldwork with indigenous cultures in Australia, Africa, and Latin America. They emphasize that the 9,000 edible insects in the world contain valuable protein sources, even though bugs are not legally recognized as food in many countries.

These chefs are not just frying grasshoppers; Ben and Josh create culinary delicacies such as Queen Termite with Mango, or Escamol Tortillas. (Escamol, of course, is ant larvae and pupa)

Salon chatted via Skype from Copenhagen with Johnsen about his film, food, and why we should eat bugs.

Check out the interview at Salon

Photo: Andrey Pavlov/Shutterstock

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