'Pestaurants' for the adventurous diners
This is no ordinary burger. Made with freshly baked bread, garden vegetables, home made sauce and a patty, this burger is anything but ordinary.- A patron has her photo taken with a cardboard insect cutout after eating insects during a global 'Pestaurant' event, held at the Occidental Restaurant in Washington, DC. For one day only, pop-up 'Pestaurants' appeared in cities across the globe to
- "That's what we put in our food," said Than, a restaurant owner, as she tucked into a plate of fried worms and grasshoppers. Her dining companion and countryman Deth Khaiaphone agreed. "It's delicious," he said.
- They also are ecologically beneficial: A company representative at the food tasting pointed out that kilo of insects takes one-tenth the energy to produce as a similar amount of beef. Mary Than needed no hard sell. She was already convinced of the
- In honour of its 85th anniversary, Ehrlich pledged to donate US$5 for each brave soul who sampled the food to a local food pantry for homeless people.
- "The consumption of insects has been known to contribute positively to the environment and to health and livelihoods," the pest control company said in a statement, touting insect-eating as a way not only to boost nutrition, but also to reduce our
- While munching on insects may be unappealing to some, the company touted bugs as the food source of the future, both plentiful and packed with nutrients like iron and calcium.
- Local pest control company Ehrlich sponsored the event in Washington, but the organisers said similar food samplings were being held on Wednesday in 11 other countries, without further explanation
- Among the exotic fare on offer were crispy barbecue mealworms and scorpion lollipops.
- Hers was one of many such plates served up on Wednesday by chef Rodney Scruggs, who helped organise an event to promote the culinary possibilities and ecological advantages of feasting on insects.
- "It's a little crunchy. It tastes fine," Kolski said, sounding somewhat surprised as she favorably appraised the dish at Washington's Occidental Restaurant, a popular establishment a stone's throw from the White House.
- Though slightly uncertain, Erin Kolski, pronounced the unusual fare on her plate -- a burger made from ground-up grasshoppers -- to be surprisingly tasty.
This is no ordinary burger. Made with freshly baked bread, garden vegetables, home made sauce and a patty, this burger is anything but ordinary.
'Pestaurants' for the adventurous diners
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