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Food fest touts bugs as fare of the future

By Agence France-Presse in Washington | China Daily | Updated: 2014-06-06 07:09

Erin Kolski pronounced the unusual fare on her plate - a burger made from ground-up grasshoppers - to be surprisingly tasty.

"It's a little crunchy. It tastes fine," Kolski said, sounding somewhat surprised as she favorably appraised the dish at Washington's Occidental Restaurant, a popular establishment a stone's throw from the White House.

Hers was one of many such plates served up on Wednesday by chef Rodney Scruggs, who helped organize an event to promote the culinary possibilities and ecological advantages of feasting on insects.

Among the exotic fare on offer were crispy barbecue mealworms and scorpion lollipops.

Local pest control company Ehrlich Pest Control sponsored the event in the US capital, but the organizers said similar food samplings were being held on Wednesday in 11 other countries, without further explanation.

While munching on insects may be unappealing to some, the company touted bugs as the food source of the future, both plentiful and packed with nutrients such as iron and calcium.

"The consumption of insects has been known to contribute positively to the environment and to health and livelihoods," the pest control company said in a statement, touting insect-eating as a way not only to boost nutrition, but also to reduce one's carbon footprint.

"More than 1,900 species have reportedly been used as food. Insects are high in protein, B vitamins and minerals like iron and zinc, and are low in fat."

In honor of its 85th anniversary, Ehrlich pledged to donate $5 to a local food pantry for homeless people for each brave soul who sampled the food.

They are also ecologically beneficial: A company representative at the food tasting pointed out that a kilogram of insects takes one-tenth the energy to produce as a similar amount of beef.

Mary Than needed no hard sell. She was already convinced of the benefits of bugs, having grown up eating them in her homeland of Laos.

"That's what we put in our food," said Than, a restaurant owner, as she tucked into a plate of fried worms and grasshoppers.

Her dining companion and countryman, Deth Khaiaphone, agreed.

"It's delicious," he said.

"It's very nutritious, it's healthy, it's less processed."

 Food fest touts bugs as fare of the future

A patron shows a grasshopper burger piled high with dried crickets and mealworms on Wednesday during a global Pestaurant event sponsored by Ehrlich Pest Control, held at the Occidental Restaurant in Washington. Karen Bleier / Agence France-Presse

(China Daily 06/06/2014 page10)

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