Man Eating Bugs
The Art and Science of Eating Insects
by Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio
Forward by Tim Cahill

The title Man Eating Bugs makes this book sound like a bad movie about over-grown, flesh-eating bugs. The reality , however, is that this is one first-class book documenting the primitive and contemporary traditions of eating insects all around the world.

The color plates featured on every page of this book are simply stunning. With crystal clarity, authors Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio take the reader around the world to witness the bug-eating traditions in places like Peru, Venezuela, South Africa, Botswana, Uganda, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, China, Australia, Japan, Mexico, and even the United States. The text of the book is a narration of the authors' experiences in their world-wide pursuit of entomophagy.

Man Eating Bugs is more like a "coffee table" book than a how-to manual. This text is a tool to alter perceptions and increase awareness about the idea of eating insects as food. Whether the book is intended for yourself, a friend, or a class of students, the reader will be fixated on the photography. You simply cannot open and close this book without broadening your horizons about the world we live in. 1998. 191 pages.

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Creepy Crawly Cuisine
The Gourmet Guide to Edible Insects
by Julieta Ramos-Elorduy, Ph.D.
with photography by Peter Menzel

The most wholesome source of protein on earth cannot be found in any supermarket in the United States, but it can be found right in your backyard! Insects have been a staple of almost every indigenous culture, not only because of their delicious flavor but also because they provide a more complete protein than soy, meat, or fish, and are concentrated sources of calcium, niacin, magnesium, potassium, the B-vitamins, and many other nutrients.

As the world heads for food shortages in the next century, insects can help meet humanity's growing nutritional needs. Creepy Crawly Cuisine tells you everything you need to know to make insects a part of your diet. It includes an overview of the use of edible insects by indigenous cultures, information on where to obtain insects and how to store and prepare them, and over 60 gourmet recipes, complete with stunning color photographs, that let you take the cooking of insects to dazzling culinary heights. As practical as it is unique, Creepy Crawly Cuisine is the ideal gift for followers of the Diet for a Small Planet, adventurous epicures, and cooks who think they have seen it all.. 1998. 150 pages.

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The Eat-A-Bug Cookbook
33 ways to cook grasshoppers, ants, water bugs, spiders, centipedes, and their kin
by David George Gordon

The Eat-A-Bug Cookbook covers a wider range of edible bugs than Entertaining with Insects or Creepy Crawly Cuisine, including grasshoppers, crickets, ants, termites, cockroaches, water bugs, silkworms, hornworms, spiders, centipedes, dragonflies and moths.

The Eat-A-Bug Cookbook also includes current information about where to order all the bugs you could ever eat, plus fascinating trivia some tips on how to harvest your own. On the other hand, the book lacks some of the helpful tips about raising your own bugs, which are included in Entertaining with Insects. 1998. 101 pages.

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Entertaining with Insects
by Ronald L. Taylor & Barbara J. Carter

How do you make lively conversation at a party? Serve insects! Entertaining with Insects: The Original Guide To Insect Cookery is the classic book of gourmet insect recipes for every occasion. But more than that, Entertaining with Insects includes a directory of commercial sources for edible insects, plus directions on how to raise, clean, and prepare your own. Whether in the city or the country, you can farm your own and impress your friends with tasty treats of mealworms, crickets, honey bees, wax moths, flour beetles, blow flies, and even earthworms!

Entertaining with Insects was first published in 1976, but reprinted for the new world of the '90's. 160 pages.

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