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    Why Not Eat Bugs for Dinner?

    At some upscale restaurants in New York and London, grasshoppers, crickets, beetles and spiders are now on the menu. The Dutch Supermarket group Jumbo has announced it will start selling edible insect products in all its stores next year.  Will American supermarkets be next?

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    By Warren Olney • Oct 30, 2014 • 1 min read

    At some upscale restaurants in New York and London, grasshoppers, crickets, beetles and spiders are now on the menu. The Dutch Supermarket group Jumbo has announced it will start selling edible insect products in all its stores next year. Will American supermarkets be next? Marcel Dicke, professor of Entomology in the Netherlands and author of The Insect Cookbook: Food for a Sustainable Planet, has more on the latest foodie discovery for a healthy, alternative diet.

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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      KCRW

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      Evan George

      Director of Content, News

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      Andrea Brody

      Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast

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      Marcel Dicke

      Wageningen University

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