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Bay Area Bug Eating Society (BABES) - San Francisco Entomophagists. Recipes, nutrition information, FAQs, and pictures.
Bert Christensen's Weird & Different Recipes: Locust Bisque - Cream soup recipe.
Bug-Eating - Various articles and links to using insects as food.
Bugfood! - Offers a variety of recipes and links to satisfy anyone's bug-filled food craving.
Cafe Insecta - Offers cooking classes and demonstrations. Includes photographs from several events and three sophisticated recipes featuring crickets.
Descending the Food Chain - An article in New Times, Broward-Palm Beach, Florida.
Dr. Frog's Recipe Page - Includes a 1687 description of a dish of Parcht Locusts, and directions for marinating bee grubs in coconut cream.
The Eat-A-Bug Cookbook - David G. Gordon shows 33 ways to cook grasshoppers, ants, water bugs, spiders, centipedes, and their kin. Buy, look through reviews, or read about the author.
Food Insects Newsletter - How-to articles about harvesting and preparing insects.
Fried Green Tomato Hornworms - Sample recipe from a cookbook by David George Gordon.
Grow-a-Brain: Entomophagy (Insect Eating) Archives - Weblog with links and photographs covering all aspects of eating insects, from recipes to newspaper articles to personal experiences.
Insect Snacks from Around the World - From the University of Kentucky Department of Entomology.
Insects as Food - Information on the current importance and the future potential of insects as a global food resource.
Insects as Human Food - Hosted by Ohio State University. Entomologists, farmers and chefs who are promoting edible insects, a foodstuff better known in academic circles as "Microlivestock." Article, recipes, and nutritional information.
Iowa State University's Tasty Insect Recipes - Offers links to insect suppliers and a few of the tastiest recipes such as banana worm bread and chocolate chirpie chip cookies. Also provides nutrition information for some common insects.
Plutos Recipes - Small collection includes Mealworm Chocolate Chip Cookies and Stir Fried Cricket Curry.
Survival.com - Eating Bugs - Article from Hoods Woods Survival Training Center.
Weird Foods: Bugs - Includes a list of insects and other arthropods eaten in various cuisines, and a few recipes including Banana Worm Bread and Cricket Chip Cookies.
Weird Recipe List - Recipes for odd dishes some including insects.
Woodlouse Recipes - Part of a page developed as a resource for Y13 Biology students. Recipes with pictures of each completed dish.
CNN: University Lures Kids with Chocolate-Covered Crickets - Review of Penn State University's 10th annual Great Insect Fair. (October 6, 2002)
MSU News: If You Like Crawdad Jambalaya, Why Not Cricket Jambalaya? - Review of the Montana State University Enytomology Department's annual "Hopper Fry" event. (January 8, 2000)
Outside Magazine: It's Hard to Eat Just One - Author Ian Frazier waxes poetic about the joys of eating mayflies. (April, 1997) Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.