Week of May 7, 2011
Bug Cuisine
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Instead of diving into that steak dinner or a Cobb salad tonight, why not a big steaming plate full of crickets, grasshoppers with guacamole, ant eggs in a butter sauce, or grub tacos made with larva? Mmmmm!
Mexico has 500 species of edible insects, many of which are served at a handful of trendy restaurants. The idea may give you the willies, but scientists say edible insects could help end hunger in the world.
Reporter Peter Aronson shares a meal your palate will never forget.
Encore presentation from August 3, 2008.
