Vancouver chef will serve insects

[D1gger]

Vancouver chef will serve insects
Canwest News Service
Published: Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Vij's restaurant, Vancouver's pride and gastronomic joy, is moving into a brave new world. Next week, it will start to serve insects in some of its dishes.
Meeru Dhalwala, the chef and co-owner with husband Vikram Vij, will introduce insects as a green cuisine. She wrote about her plan in a recent piece in the Vancouver Sun.
She argued that insects can provide an environmentally positive, healthy protein and an occasional alternative to meat, if only we could tackle the yuck factor.
Dhalwala hopes to thwart North America's instinctive disgust towards ingesting insects the way a mom disguises broccoli in her child's food.
She will start serving crickets by roasting them and grinding them into cricket flour.

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I might try it, but I'm not sure.

I have eaten at Vij's and the food was fantastic, but to the best of my knowledge it was "bug free".

 

[Lonyo]

I would eat there, but I probably wouldn't eat any food which had insects in it, but that's mostly because I'm very picky about food.
Also, iirc, some food colourings come from insects, so you might want to check that other foods you already eat don't contain insect products. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochineal#Usage )

 

[Anubis]

will they be covered in chocolate?

 

[PepePeru]

Vancouver chef is bankrupt.
Canwest News Service
Published: Thursday, June 18, 2009
Vij's restaurant, Vancouver's former pride and gastronomic joy, attempted to leap into a brave new world. Last year it started to serve insects in some of its dishes.
Meeru Dhalwala, the chef and co-owner with husband Vikram Vij, introduced insects as green cuisine. She wrote about her plan in a piece in the Vancouver Sun last year.
She argued that insects can provide an environmentally positive, healthy protein and an occasional alternative to meat, if only we could tackle the yuck factor.
Dhalwala hoped to thwart North America's instinctive disgust towards ingesting insects the way a mom disguises broccoli in her child's food.
She started by serving crickets by roasting them and grinding them into cricket flour.

 

[ScottMac]

This is nothing. Chicago restaurants have been serving insects for over a century. They're good at it and make 'em look like they're supposed t be there with the regular food.

Post again when the Vancouver chef can serve a decent rodent turd like the Chicago {NewYork|LA|NOLA|Detroit|Cleveland...etc} restaurants can.

They're way behind, so to speak.

 

[EvilYoda]

Hey, if the insects can make a reservation like everyone else, I have no problem with the chef serving them.

 

[KeithTalent]

Vij's kicks ass. Definitely my favourite Indian restaurant in town.

I'd be willing to try it, it's not like this is a dump of a restaurant or anything, they make awesome food.

KT