Will eating insects ever be mainstream? — theguardian.com

"Why not eat insects?" asked American pamphleteer Vincent Holt in 1885, proof that selling the idea of insect-eating to meat'n'two veg culture is nothing new. There are already 2 billion people worldwide who routinely eat bugs, but entomophagy is having a foodie moment in the western world. Insects are even a novelty on the UK food scene. They're mainly found as subversive garnishes for salads or cocktails, or on the menus of experimental pop-up restaurants. One start-up company (eat-ento.co.uk) is focusing on the aesthetic issue, however, and hopes to remove our psychological barrier to insect-eating by transforming the flesh of edible creepy crawlies into anodyne cubes.

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