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Raise Your Own Edible Insects With This Free Kit:

Daniel Imrie-Situnayake says that cockroaches taste pretty good. He also eats crickets and mealworms, and his favorite insect dish is something called silkworm patties. You can think of them as bug burgers.

Imrie-Situnayake is part of a new and growing community of people who treat insects as food. The practice is known as entomophagy, and though this sort of thing has long been common in other parts of the world, it's only beginning to find solid footing in the U.S. and Europe. The San Francisco chef Phil Ross and the London eatery Ento have made bugs the hip new thing among the foodie crowd, and people like Imrie-Situnayake want to push the practice forward even further. As the co-founder of an entomophagy startup called Tiny Farms, he sees insect cuisine not just as a lifestyle choice, but as a way of averting the world's looming food problems.

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/03/open- bug-farm/ [wired.com]

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