The Eat-a-Bug Cookbook, Revised: 40 Ways to Cook Crickets, Grasshoppers, Ants, Water Bugs, Spiders, Centipedes, and Their Kin

Well, I bought this book to go with my edible plants book for survival skills. With covid-19 threatening the food chain, I'm getting a little "antsy" ....so to speak (forgive me). The author is definitely changing my mind as far as using insects as food. Hey, it's a strange and interesting read plus I might need these skills some day. It's quite entertaining, I'm looking forward to finishing the book.

Good recipes but limited selection of bugs (most of which I cannot easily obtain), not much variety in common feeder insects that people could farm at their own home, since its not practical to keep buying expensive novelty insects to use for a part of your diet unless its just a novelty to make these dishes for you. Never once mentioned buffalo worms and only one I believe mentioned cockroaches, 2 of the healthiest edible insects one of which is much more appetizing to the average person.also minor nitpick the termite recipes are hilariously impractical and nearly unobtainable for people to make without buying them in ridiculous quantities; I've estimated you'd need ~75,000-111,111 workers or a bit less for soldiers and less for queens to make 100g of termites to use in the recipe(s).

A gift

This book will be a great conversation starter and when we paired it with a bag of cricket flour as a birthday gift, it got a lot of attention! Drama is the main focus here, with professional quality photos of Deep Fried Tarantula Spider and White Chocolate and Waxworm Cookies, just to name a few. It seems that it may be difficult to source these ingredients, at least here in the U.S., although they do have a list of resources in the back and my husband found one company located near us and is planning a field trip. Now, if only he can find people interested in coming over for dinner......

Great information on collecting and using insects in food, plus the recipes work. I got it to use with my bug-loving grandson who was willing to give eating them a try. We made chocolate covered crickets as well as the stir-fried crickets. We made the meal-worm spaghetti too. They all turned out good. The chocolate covered crickets were much better than store bought. The stir fried crickets were reminiscent of shrimp. The mealworms were my least favorite but they worked well in the pasta b/c they have a cheesy kind of smell. The book also has resources for buying insects for cooking.

Great information, but seriously, very picture-poor. There are thousands of different species of grasshoppers, ants, cockroaches, etc. It would be nice if the author would at least put a little identification diagram in or something for each recipe, or a little more information about the specific bugs used in each recipe. Plus, in entomophagy more than in regular cooking, photos are an important convincer!

Perfect gag gift. Everything in this book grossed me out but if you like bugs then this is the perfect bug cook book for you.

I thought this would be more of a cookbook with a focus on the bugs, they seem more an afterthought in the recipes. It is an interesting read but I can make a recipe and sprinkle insects into anything. I was looking more for a way to cook the bugs plain (like crunchy pumpkin seeds) or grind up meal worms to make a flour or past to then make things.

quick delivery, my son love this book!

Good book for ideas on how to cook critters!Loved it.

Even if you might never cook ( or eat ) a Bug in your entire life , this Book is a MUST !It is a very good Cookbook and one day ( maybe soon ) everybody will follow the Recipes contained in it !As I have said : BEAUTIFUL !

!!! It's fabulous!!!

#Excellent Very well written and worth a read even if your not tempted. I have to confess I will be trying some of the recipes. I have to know...