Let start cooking grasshoppers! Fish “rillettes”, that’s so old fashion! Tuna with fresh cheese, that’s a nice way to welcome your guests for a party, but let step up the game by cooking insects! For today, we will use grasshoppers for cooking. Don’t worry, that’s nice, easy and tasty! A… Read More
We often hear in the news that celebrities start eating insects for different reasons. They start to eat insects because they’re nutritious or because it’s a sustainable food source but mainly because it’s delicious! It’s not a secret anymore that insects are considered as delicacies all around the world. We… Read More
Nanna Roos, a researcher at the University of Copenhagen, stated at the Congress “Edible insects; the value chain” the next question: ‘Are edible insects superfoods?’ We asked ourselves the same, that’s why we listened carefully and can now give the answer ‘YES!’ to this question. Below we… Read More
Originally from Laos and transmitted all across South-East asia, Som Tam is litteraly a green papaya salad, from which the primary ingredient is the papaya’s grated flesh collected before maturity. It is completed by other ingredients, including powdered dried shrimps. For developing insect cuisine, we replaced them with dried mealworms… Read More
Edible grasshoppers, a delicacy in Mexico Many people in Mexico eat their burritos with chicken or beef, but not in Oaxaca! In this city, the inhabitants eat them with chapulines, edible grasshoppers, gently fried in oil and seasoned with pepper, garlic and lemon. This food is common in this region,… Read More
At JIMINI’S, we all love honey! It’s a natural sugar that contains antioxidants that are beneficial for our health. Honey has a lower glycemic index than sugar so you get all the sweetness without a glycemic peak. With different flavours, it’s very versatile and different kinds of honey have… Read More
Grasshoppers, wasp larvae, silkworm pupae: In Japan, eating insects is present even if it’s not very public. One of the popular ways to cook insect is the “Tsukudani”. Cooking an insect recipe: The tsukudani confit This way of cooking comes from Tsukudajima island where it was first elaborated as… Read More
Reducing our meat consumption can have a positive effect on our health and the environment. For a long period of time, in Europe and US, meat and fish were sought to be the only way to get proteins. As eating too much meat and especially red meat could increase cholesterol… Read More
During summer when we’re seeking for cold, for moving and for relaxing, there is nothing better than hiking. We can enjoy the fresh air of the mountain, nature while walking. We’re refreshing our mind while shaping amazing calves! But what do we need to take for hiking? For sure,… Read More
From the 13 to the 15 of August 2018, was held the second North-American conference on edible insects. This year, it was located in Athens, Georgia. This city is famous for its huge university and its entomological department training the future edible insect’s experts. We were honoured to be invited… Read More
