We have some fancy names for certain styles of foods such as charcuterie for a tray of appetizers and etouffee for shrimp ...

Entomophagy has long been recognised as an underutilised strategy to address food security issues. Eating insects is one part ...

Chef Joseph Yoon began cooking cicadas after experimenting with insects for an art project. He shared his experience with Morning Edition. The cicadas are coming! And so are some new flavor profiles.

In a nondescript warehouse in Maysville, Kentucky, a worker loads food waste into one of the thousands of custom-designed trays stacked in climate-controlled rooms. Each tray is home to masses of ...

The UK’s Food Standards Agency has said it will allow products containing edible insects to remain on the market while they undergo the Novel Foods authorisation process to assess safety. The ...

Insects fed from industrial side-stream waste and then directly consumed as food have the ‘greatest potential to reduce the carbon footprints of European consumers’, claims a new study. It is more ...

The benefits of edible insects as an emerging food source must be weighed against potential food safety issues, according to the United Nations’ FAO. While insects have been part of the diets of many ...