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Taboo food and drink
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Exotic dishes -- Philippine cuisine
Exotic dishes -- Vietnamese cuisine

the News . . .

• Edible Insects -- PBS Nova (53:28 min., 20 October 2021)
• Edible Insects -- UMD Alexander Street Link
  
  
• "From crunchy crickets to nutty fly grubs, NOVA takes a tasty look at insect foods and how they could benefit our health and our warming planet. From Thailand to Texas, insect farmers are showing how the tiny critters stack up as an environmentally friendly alternative to beef protein and can, pound for pound, deliver better nutritional value than the finest steak. But will Americans overcome the “ick” factor and share the appetite of many cultures around the world for insect feasts?" (Premiered October 20, 2021)
  
  

• Ackee and saltfish: Jamaica’s breakfast of champions [The Jamaican fruit that could kill you] -- BBCTravel (15 March 2021)
  
  
• The delicious flavour with a toxic secret [Tonka beans] -- BBCReel (17 January 2021)
  
  
• How François Mitterrand ate his final roast ortolan -- The Guardian (30 December 2020)
  
  
• One way to fight invasive species? Eat them -- National Geographic (23 December 2020)
  
  
• Covid-19: China's dilemma over wild meat trade -- BBCNews (25 September 2020)
  
  
• Roasted, curried, sweetened … guinea pig meat returns to the plates of Peru -- The Guardian (16 March 2020)
  
  
• China's Latest Virus Outbreak Exposes Perils of Exotic Wildlife Trade -- Reuters (23 January 2020)
  
  
• How a plant saved a Japanese island [sotetsu; cycads] -- BBCtravel (07 January 2020)
  
  
• Somalis fight locust invasion by eating them -- BBCNews (20 December 2019)
  
  
• Are Insect Guts the Secret to the Most Delicious Kimchi? -- Gastropod (03 December 2019)
  
  
• Bugs, rodent hair and poop: How much is legally allowed in the food you eat every day? -- CNN (04 October 2019)
  
  
• Mexico’s ancient ‘caviar’ -- BBCtravel (11 September 2019)
  
  
• Yes, algae is green and slimy – but it could also be the future of food – The Guardian (13 August 2019)
  
  
• Man Learns the Hard Way That Mixing Pufferfish and Cocaine Is a Very Bad Idea – The Guardian 27 Junet 2019)
  
  
• The mysterious case of Japan's ‘dancing zombie squid’ -- BBCtravel (31 January 2019)
  
  • Dancing Zombie Squid Explained (10 August 2011)
    
    
• The tasty tradition of Taiwan’s midnight meals -- BBCtravel (13 December 2018)
  
  
• Table for None: Why Do Certain Foods Turn You Off? -- The New York Times (30 October 2018)
  
  
• Teen baked her grandfather's ashes into sugar cookies and brought them to school, police say -- Los Angeles Times (16 October 2018)
  
  
• Man Dies from Extremely Rare Disease After Eating Squirrel Brains -- LiveScience (15 October 2018)
  
  
• Rotten durian causes Melbourne university evacuation -- BBCNews (29 April 2018)
  
  
• Why you may have been eating insects your whole life -- BBCNews (28 April 2018)
  
  
• Bug appetite: German supermarket sells burgers made from worms -- The Guardian (21 April 2018)
  
  
• Deutsch, Jonathan, Ed., We Eat What?: A Cultural Encyclopedia of Unusual Foods in the United States. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2018.
  
  
• An Olympic Challenge: Eat All the Korean Food That Visitors Won’t -- The New York Times (21 February 2018)
  
  
• World’s most controversial fruit may depend on giant bats for pollination -- The Guardian (195 February 2018)
  
  
• Edible insects: Do insects actually taste any good? -- BBCNews (18 January 2018)
  
  
• In Iceland, food is a challenge, not a meal -- BBCtravel (18 January 2018)
  
  
• Japan: hunt for deadly fugu fish sold in error by supermarket -- The Guardian (15 January 2018)
  
  
• How bugs make cheese delicious -- BBCfuture (05 January 2018)
  
  
• Toxic. Sour. Atomic. Why we love to hate gross candy -- MPRNews (30 October 2017)
  
  
• Did a poisoned fish open my eyes to a culture of fear? -- TheGuardian (29 September 2017)
  
  
• The Japanese dinner delicacy that could kill you -- BBCNews (28 September 2017)
  
  
• The deadly dish people love to eat -- BBCTravel (21 March 2017)
  
  
• Lombok festival inspired by tale of a 'sea worm' princess -- BBCNews (20 February 2017)
  
  
• The Amazon tribe that kills and eats monkeys -- Daily Mail (12 February 2017)
  
  
• Eating roadkill in West Virginia -- BBCNews (03 October 2016)
  
  
• Last Supper? Japan's diners divided over killer puffer fish -- theguardian (05 August 2016)
  
  
• Weird foods only a local could love -- BBCtravel (05 July 2016)
  
  
• Secrets of the world's oldest funeral feast -- BBCearth (24 May 2016)
  
  
• China denies selling human flesh as tinned corned beef in Zambia in Africa -- BBCnewsbeat (21 May 2016)
  
  
• Artisanal marijuana crab cakes: Is this the future of getting high? -- The Washington Post (19 May 2016)
  
  
• Indonesia's best – and goriest – cuisine -- BBCtravel (20 April 2016)
  
  
• The strange foods that Americans loved a century ago -- The Washington Post (26 January 2016)
  
  
• Stink bugs offer healthy benefits as food source, study finds -- SciDev.Net (25 January 2016)
  
  
• Inside Spain's secret food societies -- BBCtravel (12 January 2016)
  
  
• What’s Best, Worst, and Most Weird About American Food -- National Geographic News (20 December 2015)
  
  
• Countries where rats are on the menu -- BBCFuture (07 December 2015)
  
  
• Sugar-Producing Bacteria To Be Tested in Space as Food Source for Astronauts -- Gizmodo (26 November 2015)
  
  
• Is it true that we swollow spiders when we sleep? -- BBC Earth (17 November 2015)
  
  
• The people who drink human blood -- BBC News (21 October 2015)
  
  
• University of Connecticut offering crickets as snack or taco topping at food truck -- StarTribune (04 October 2015)
  
  
• Scourge no more: Chefs invite corn fungus to the plate -- MPRNews (24 August 2015)
  
  
• Cambodia's creepy-crawly cuisine -- BBC News (24 August 2015)
  
  
• 4 foods Americans don't eat much anymore -- MPRNews (18 August 2015)
  
  
• The country that blends endangered frogs -- BBCNews (14 May 2015)
  
  
• China probes 'salamander banquet' -- BBCNews (27 Januaray 2015)
  
  
• People in Peru Are Drinking an Endangered Species: Frog Juice. For the (Supposed) Health Benefits -- Washington Post (18 November 2014)
  
  
• 101 Strangest Foods Around the World -- When on Earth (10 November 2014)
  
  
• Puffer fish poisons 11 in Brazil -- BBCNews (24 October 2014)
  
  
• Chefs Fight for Songbird: The Ortolan: A Tiny Bird as a French Cause Célèbre -- NewYorkTimes (13 October 2014)
  
  
• Why Not Eat Octopus? -- Silvia Killingsworth, The New Yorker (03 October 2014)
  
  
• Cambodian rat meat: A growing export market -- Kevin Doyle, BBCNews (24 August 2014)
  
  
• If You’re Going to Follow a Paleo Diet, You Ought to Be Eating Bugs -- Washington Post (14 April 2014)
  
  
• Last supper: Like the deadly pufferfish, wild mushrooms are for culinary daredevils. Care to play Russian roulette with your dinner? -- Cal Flyn, Aeon Magazine (24 December 2013)
  
  
• Could I bring myself to eat a guinea pig? -- Paula Dear, BBCNews (10 June 2013)
  
  
• Worms! A look at Zimbabwe's favorite snack: mopane worms -- DailyNews (25 January 2013)
  
  
• [video] Can I Eat That? -- NOVA scienceNOW (aired 31 October 2012)
  
  
• Urine-soaked eggs a spring taste treat in China city -- Royston Chan, Reuters (29 March 2012)
  
  
• Survival’s Ick Factor -- James Gorman, New York Times (23 January 2012)
  
  
• Dancing Zombie Squid Explained (10 August 2011)
  

• 10 Things Snack Food Companies Won't Say -- SmartMoney (15 November 2010)
  
  
• 101 Strangest Foods Around the World -- When on Earth (10 November 2014)
  
  
• Assessing the Potential of Insects as Food and Feed in assuring Food Security: Summary Report -- FAO, Technical Consultation Meeting, Rome, Italy, 23-25 January 2012.
  
  
• B.A.B.E.S. -- Bay Area Bug Eating Society
  
  
• Bourdain, Anthony. A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines. Harper Perennial, 2002.
  
  
• Brace yourself: There's filth in the food you eat -- Charles Stuart Platkin,  News-Leader.com, (15 February 2005)
  
  
• video: Bugs for Breakfast: Food & Culture (19 min., 2001, UM DULUTH Library Multimedia GT2850 .B84 2001 DVD)
  
  
• Bugs you can eat -- NOVA
  
  
• China's fast-food menu for the 2008 Olympics -- Oddity Central (13 august 2008)
  
  
• Critters on the Menu
  
  
• DeFoliart, Gene R. (2002-09-29). "The Human Use of Insects as a Food Resource: A Bibliographic Account in Progress". University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  
  
• Deutsch, Jonathan, and Natalya Murakhver (Eds.). They Eat That?: A Cultural Encyclopedia of Weird and Exotic Food from around the World. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2012.
  
  
• Dog meat and rooster balls: The 10 most exotic Asian foods -- Nellie Huang, MatadorNights (14 January 2009)
  
  
• Edible Insects East Africa -- Shigemi Yagi
  
  
• Edwards, Nina. Offal: A Global History. London: Reaktion, 2013.
  
  
• ENTOMOPHAGY WEBSITE LINKS -- Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota
  
  
• Everyday Exotic with Roger Mooking [TV show]
  
  
• Extreme Cuisine with Jeff Corwin [TV show]
  
  
• Food Defect Levels Handbook: Levels of natural or unavoidable defects in foods that present no health hazards for humans -- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (USFDA)
  
  
• The Food Insects Newsletter
  
  
• For Most People, Eating Bugs Is Only Natural -- Sharon Guynup and Nicolas Ruggia (15 July 2004)
  
  
• "Gonna Eat That?," The Meaning of Food, PBS
  
  
• Haines, Helen R., and Clare A. Sammells (Eds.). Adventures in Eating: Anthropological Experiences of Dining from Around the World. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2010.
  
  
• Hopkins, Jerry. 2004. Extreme Cuisine: The Weird & Wonderful Foods That People Eat. Hong Kong: Periplus Editions.
  
  
• Le, Stephen. 100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why it Matters Today. NY: Picador, 2016.
  
  
• MacClancy, Jeremy, C. Jeya Henry and Helen Macbeth (Eds.). Consuming the Inedible: Neglected Dimensions of Food Choice. NY: Berghan, 2007.
  
  
• Man Bites Insects -- SAM NEJAME, The New York Times (February 10, 2008)
  
  
• Menzel, Peter, and Faith D'Aluisio. Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Scince of Eating Insects. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed, 1998.
  
  
• Mol, Annemarie. Eating in Theory. Durham, London: Duke University Press, 2021.
  
  
• National Geographic Food Film Clips
  
  
• Scorpon Bites -- Phillip R. Johnson
  
  
• Scorpion kebab, anyone? It's fast food Beijing style.... But will any Olympic visitors have the stomach for it? -- Geoffrey Wansell, DailyMail (03 August 2008)
  
  
• Thai Insects Eaten for Snacks -- Thai supermarket online
  
  
• Use of Insects by Australian Aborigines -- Ron Cherry, American Entomologist (32: 8-13)
  
  
• Weird Meat -- a food and travel blog
  
  
• What Is Fried and Has Six Legs? Welcome to Insect Cuisine -- Judith Newman, The New York Times (20 May 1992)
  
  
• Why Not Eat Insects (1885 pamphlet) by Vincent Holt, with French cuisine recipes
  
  
• www.food-insects.com"
  
  
• Zimmern, Andrew. Bizarre Foods.
  
  
• Zimmern, Andrew. The Bizarre Truth: Culinary Misadventures Around the Globe. NY: Random House/Broadway Books, 2009.