Like frying up some tilapia or shrimp for tacos. They tasted like a fried crunchy meat with a soft nuttiness. I added guacamole, queso fresco, tomato, fried waxwoms. STEP 8: Made it look pretty on a tortilla. Took a deep breath, and another big sip from the strong drink. In the hot oil, the waxworms stretched out and became orzo-like, and then crinkle-cut-french-fry-like. STEPS 4-6: Fried up onions, peppers in olive oil. STEP 3: Cleaned up the bugs from the wood shavings. STEP 2: Opened up the waxworm container, took a deep breath, and a big gulp from the strong drink. Plus, it seems a little different to actually have to cook them. Despite all the reasons I’ve accumulated as a pre-emptive self-persuasion to eat bugs, I’m still beholden to my culturally-constructed food avoidance. I freeze them for 3 days just to be sure. I am careful not to ask questions.ĭavid George Gordon’s Eat-A-Bug Cookbook suggests freezing the waxworms over night to humanely kill them and any bacteria. To avoid Overzealous Lizard Man, I go to the Petsmart on the other side of town. I have 18 years experience handling lizards. There are many other lizards that are much better to start out with. He responds with preachy helpfulness, “Well, you shouldn’t start with an iguana for a beginner. I dig in deeper, “Oh, I don’t know what kind of lizard it is yet. But I can’t help defending my treatment of this non-existent iguana. You should not be feeding your iguana waxworms.”Īt this point, I should hang up. It just says ‘waxworms.’ What do you want them for?” The Petsmart guy says, “Let me see.” He puts me on hold. I called PetSmart on the west side and was connected with live reptile department. I’ve never had a lizard-or anything-to buy bugs for. It’s weird to think of a grocery run to Petsmart.
I figured it would be the same place you would get bugs to feed a pet lizard. I decided to start my insect-cooking journey with the wax moth tacos popularized by the Don Bugito food cart in San Francisco and featured in Daniella Martin’s awesome entomophagy treatise, Edible: An Adventure into the World of Eating Insects and the Last Great Hope to Save the Planet.įirst, I had to figure out where to get the bugs to eat. I cooked terrestrial arthropods, not the more culinary-acceptable aquatic arthropod. Although New Englanders playfully refer to lobsters as “bugs.”
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