Woo hoo - the edible insect world just took a major step forward today! Check out Seek Food's new Kickstarter campaign. They are working with an insanely talented team of award-winning chefs to launch a line of baking flours targeted to specific dietary needs and an accompanying world-class cookbook. Over the past year, they've learned a [...]
Last week I tried to make some amuse bouches from bugs. This is a French term meaning something along the lines of amusing the mouth (aka generating an appetite... aka an appetizer!) It's also just super fun to say. Long story short, I chose really bad avocados. My roommate Blake suggested that I learn the [...]
Influencer marketing. You see it all the time - the Instagram models with #ad in their caption, pushing the cute jeans they’re wearing or the blue gummy hair vitamins. If you’re unfamiliar with this trend, you need to crawl out from under your rock, hop on any of the major social media platforms, and take [...]
All natural, organic, dairy free and complete protein products made with cricket powder. This is the promise made by Byron Bay (Austrailia) based company Grilo. Grilo means "cricket" in Portuguese. On their site, they write, "According to the dictionary, a cricket is a brown or black insect that makes short, loud noises by rubbing its [...]
Are you thinking about growing your own mealworms? Want to try your hand at starting your own home mealworm farm? Read more on the Bugible blog!
Located in the former legendary Screen Actors Guild headquarters, The Guild takes the farm-to-table movement to new heights by using locally grown crickets. A rainy night in Los Angeles will keep most locals bundled up at home, especially on a Sunday evening. Contemporary LA restaurant The Guild, however, was packed with a crowd of entrepreneurs, [...]
Around 40 years ago, the average U.S. citizen didn’t relish the idea of consuming raw fish. Many, in fact, even considered eating raw fish barbaric—something for the uncultured or poor. Now, sushi is a thriving industry. All it took was some clever branding, the California Roll, and time. My name is Aly Moore and I [...]
Around 40 years ago the U.S. did not relish the idea of consuming raw fish. Many, in fact, even considered eating raw fish barbaric... something for the uncultured or poor. Now sushi is a thriving industry. All it took was some clever branding, the California Roll, and time. I refer to this method as “Trojan-horsing” [...]
"[Experts] said the hottest thing is eating crickets," says Indra Nooyi, the CEO of Pepsi. She continues,"I am not talking about the game cricket, I am talking about crickets! In chips." In 2026, your go-to snack food may be bugs. Edible insects are transitioning - they are no longer just consumed during scarcity of conventional food [...]
There are few things more stereotypical of American youth than chowing down on a burger, fries, and maybe a chocolate shake. But what if that burger was made of insects? Enter: Bugfoundation. At the moment, these healthy, sustainable, and "bugelicious" burgers are sold in Belgium and the Netherlands, but the team has plans for expansion. [...]
