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James Beard Foundation
Best Book, Foodwriting 1998 |
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"What a marvelous book! I thought I knew a lot about
entomophagy around the world, but this book stunned me. In at least one dimension it shatters the Western conception of humankind's relation to the insect world."
-Edward O. Wilson
Curator in Entomology, Harvard University
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"Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio have documented people all over the world practicing exactly what I always preach:
Eat food that's fresh, local, and in season! We can all learn a lot from this delightful book."
-Alice Waters
Proprietor, Chez Panisse |
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"It was not until we saw the tarantula the size of a dinner plate that we realized that maybe this entomophagy business was out of control."
-Peter Menzel | |
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Entomophagy, noun [Greek entomon, insect and
Gr. phagein, to eat.] the eating of insects.
Before fast food, farms, or even wild game, insects fed prehistoric hunter-gatherers all over the world. A near taboo in the Western world, entomophagy is still practiced in Asia, Africa, Oceania, and Latin America by millions of people in traditional societies-and by a couple of diehard Western journalists. |
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