The Insect Cookbook: Food for a Sustainable Planet (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)
An attractive mixture of background information on insects, their anatomy and history of use in food and other products, food culture, recipes, and interviews. It is very carefully prepared and a pleasure to read.(Job Ubbink, Food Concept and Physical Design of "The Mill," Switzerland)Beautifully presented and well written, The Insect Cookbook has a variety of authorities to support its case that we need to consider incorporating insects into our diets for ecological reasons.(Theresia de Vroom, Marymount Institute for Faith)...[E]ntomologists Arnold van Huis and Marcel Dicke team up with chef Henk van Gurp for a pragmatic introduction to entomophagy, covering insect farming, nutrition and cuisine. Tarte tatin with chocolate-coated grasshoppers? With 2 billion of us already popping mealworms and more, this is a case of joining the crowd.(Barbara KiserNature)