Today, at least 2 billion people worldwide consume more than 2,000 species of insects. Rich in vitamins, minerals, fiber, protein and essential fatty acids, edible insects have the potential to boost human food security, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization. Here are some books on how you can prepare meals using grasshoppers, centipedes, bees, ants and witchetty grubs, among other bugs.

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2. Today, at least 2 billion people worldwide consume more than 2,000 species of
insects. Rich in vitamins, minerals, fiber, protein and essential fatty acids, edible
insects have the potential to boost human food security, according to the Food
and Agriculture Organization.
Here are some books on how you can prepare meals using grasshoppers,
centipedes, bees, ants and witchetty grubs, among other bugs.
Photo by: Mills Baker / CC-BY

3. The Insect Cookbook: Food for a Sustainable
Planet (Arts and Traditions of the Table:
Perspectives on Culinary History)
by Arnold van Huis, Henk van Gurp and Marcel
Dicke
Photo by: photochem_PA / CC-BY

4. The Eat-a-Bug Cookbook, Revised: 40 Ways to
Cook Crickets, Grasshoppers, Ants, Water Bugs,
Spiders, Centipedes, and Their Kin
by David George Gordon
Photo by: Ryan T. Fox / CC-BY-NC-SA

5. Edible: An Adventure into the World of Eating
Insects and the Last Great Hope to
Save the Planet
by Daniella Martin
Photo by: Jims_photos / CC-BY-NC-SA

6. Creepy Crawly Cuisine: The Gourmet Guide to
Edible Insects
by Julieta Ramos-Elorduy
Photo by: L Chruch / CC-BY

7. Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science
of Eating Insects
by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio
Photo by: Jon Clork / CC-BY-NC-SA

8. Check out #FeedingDev
for more innovative solutions to global nutrition challenges
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