by Holly Bennett
Would you like a few honey-mustard crickets sprinkled over your salad? How about a tasty taco filled with spicy fried chapulines (grasshoppers)? Gabriele Curcio, age 11, voted “No thanks” when his family ordered a plate of roasted crickets at a restaurant in Mexico. “I didn’t like the idea of eating something that had been jumping around in the dirt,” he says. But his mom, dad, and five-year-old brother Simon all tried them – and liked them! “Simon said they tasted like corn,” says Gabriele. His dad, Dave, says, “They were crunchy and the taste reminded me of seasoned peanuts.”
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In many parts of the world, eating insects is nothing new – but it’s not common in North America and Europe. That may be starting to change. A few years ago, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization reported that raising and eating insects has a lot of benefits and should be encouraged.
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