The Japanese tradition of raising and eating wasps

The Japanese tradition of raising and eating wasps.

Edible insects are often talked about as a possible “food of the future” – but what does insect-eating actually look like in the here and now? Guest producer Soleil Ho is the food critic for the San Francisco Chronicle and writer of Meal: Adventures in Entomophagy. She went to Kushihara, a mountain village in Japan where wasps are a seasonal delicacy, to learn more about the region’s traditional eating of insects.

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