CRAWLING CUISINE.

From: Los Angeles Business Journal | Date: April 2, 2001| Author: SHINDLER, MERRILL | Copyright information

Eating bugs isn't such a revolting idea at some local restaurants. In fact, the establishments go to great troubles to serve up the creatures.

THANKS to the remarkable success of the Survivor series, the eating of insects has entered the mainstream in a way few observers of the culinary scene might have expected. There is a long tradition of bug eating -- very little of which is found in the United States. Indeed, the rest of the world eats so many bugs, that author Jerr...

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