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  • A Japanese battery-operated robot traffic officer, "anzen taro" (which means "safety boy"), directs traffic at a construction zone on an expensive toll road near Mt. Fuji, outside Tokyo, Japan. (Man Eating Bugs page s 30, 31)
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  • In a basement sushi bar in Tokyo, Japan, Mariko Urabe prepares to eat an inago, a grasshopper. She had never eaten one before and wasn't particularly interested in eating this one. The second small bowl of appetizers contains silkworm pupae. As is true in many countries, food preferences are culturally based and don't necessarily extend to the entire country. (Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects)
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  • A delectable grasshopper (inago, from the Japanese Alps) marinated in a soy-sugar sauce. Mariko Urabe is eating this appetizer in a small basement restaurant in Tokyo that specializes in cuisine from Nagano prefecture (grasshoppers, silk worm pupae, zaza-mushi). (Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects)
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  • In a basement sushi bar in Tokyo, Japan, Mariko Urabe puts an inago, a grasshopper, between her teeth. She had never eaten one before this photograph and wasn't particularly interested in eating this one. As is true in many countries, food preferences are culturally based and don't necessarily extend to the entire country. (Man Eating Bugs page 37)
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  • Licensed zaza-mushi fisherman Kazumi Nakamura nets the larvae of the aquatic caddis fly which he later cooks by boiling, cleaning, and sautéing with soy sauce and sugar; the zaza-mushi are at the peak of their culinary quality when harvested from the coldest waters of the Tenru River in December and January, Ina City, Japan. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Licensed zaza-mushi fisherman Kazumi Nakamura nets the larvae of the aquatic caddis fly which he later cooks by boiling, cleaning, and sautéing with soy sauce and sugar; the zaza-mushi are at the peak of their culinary quality when harvested from the coldest waters of the Tenru River in December and January, Ina City, Japan. (Man Eating Bugs page 32,33)
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  • The feet of special zaza-mushi-stalking waders with a special big toe section to best grip the slippery bottom of the cold river; steel crampons are also strapped onto the bottoms of the waders to enhance the stalker's grip, Ina City, Japan. (Man Eating Bugs page 32 Bottom)
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  • A collection of zaza-mushi in the hands of Kazumi Nakamura, a retired fisherman who belongs to an elite group of licensed zaza-mushi hunters. The worms, named for zaza, the sound of rushing water, and mushi, insect, are found under the rocks of the cold Tenru River, and are at the peak of their flavor when harvested in December and January, Ina City, Japan. (Man Eating Bugs page 32 Top)
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  • Boiled zaza-mushi, the larvae of the aquatic cossid moth, are laid out on newspaper to be cleaned of river debris in Ina City, Japan. Zaza-mushi hunters must be licensed to harvest the aquatic creatures. The zaza-mushi are sautéed with soy sauce and sugar and eaten as an appetizer. (Man Eating Bugs page 34,35)
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  • Arrangements of cold, canned, edible insects in an inn in Ina City. The various insects, zaza-mushi, grasshoppers, bee larvae, and silkworm pupae, are all cooked and canned in a brown sauce of sugar and soy, and therefore all possess the same flavor which masks their individual flavors, Ina City, Japan. (Man Eating Bugs page 36)
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  • Cans of baby bees and grasshoppers sold by the Kaneman Company, Ina City, Japan. Portrait of the company owners. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Cans of baby bees and grasshoppers (inago) sold by the Kaneman Company, Ina City, Japan. (Man Eating Bugs page 31 Inset)
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