This year's menu includes cricket chili, fried crickets in garlic sauce and a variety of cookies and breads in which mealworms are invisible ingredients. Honey and honey- flavored soft drinks will be offered as well. The idea behind the bug feast is to drive home a point made in lectures that insects are a regular part of the human diet in developing countries around the world.
Some restaurants opening up in Japan now offer mountain cuisine.
Mountain cuisine refers to what ancestral Japanese used to eat when they lived in the mountains. They ate a lot of insects. Insects are really very nutritious. They contain very little in the way of cholesterol and, depending on the insect, they contain a lot of protein. The foods that Zack and his colleagues make won't duplicate recipes used in other cultures because of limited availability of six-legged ingredients.