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fromenglish.elpais.com
3 weeks ago

Crickets and grubs on the menu: Are we ready to eat insects?

Entomophagy is slowly entering European cuisine, but EU regulations permitting only four insect species limit market expansion and product variety.
fromwww.npr.org
4 months ago

'You'll have a long life': In DR Congo, maggots and caterpillars are prized food

They're tastier than they look. Edible insects in the form of wriggling maggots or hairy caterpillars are both delicacy and staple in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a central African nation of nearly 120 million people. In markets in the capital Kinshasa, tubs full of writhing white maggots line the alleyways, and women traders fry caterpillars, spiced with chili, over charcoal fires.
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