Is the idea of eating a fried cricket really so odd? I mean, have you looked at a boiled crawfish before it gets chopped up into an étouffée?
The line between what’s acceptable to eat and what’s not can be pretty fuzzy. The adventurers at Chesterfield’s Butterfly House are poking their antennae just over the line with this weekend’s free Buzz: Cook Up a Cricket event (Sunday, Feb. 21, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.).
The bug-lovers at the beloved insectarium will discuss how people all over the world eat insects, and then cook up crickets and mealworms for sampling. You can also check out some popular insect-based foods from abroad and play related games.
Maybe they’ll have that live-worm dish that the Klingons eat on Star Trek, too …
– Byron Kerman
This article appears in Feb 1-28, 2010.