Italy resists the taste for edible insects
In years past, while working as journalist in south-east Asia, I encountered many people for whom insects were a normal part of their diets.
I met Cambodians who caught and ate insects to survive the near starvation of the Khmer Rouge genocide. In Thailand’s lively night markets, street vendors sold deep-fried grasshoppers, crickets, worms and other bugs as snacks. I met a Thai entrepreneur whose start-up produced fried insects in modern, branded packaging for grocery stores.
This story originally appeared on: Financial Times - Author:Amy Kazmin
