I didn’t take this picture, it’s from The Black Ant’s twitter page. When I first read about entomophagy (the practice of eating insects), it was through an NPR article (The Joys and Ethics of Insect Eating) that was introducing the reader to the company Little Herds. One thing that Robert Nathan Allen, the founder of Little Herds, mentioned was the greatest barrier to Americans eating insects what the “ick factor”. The article, as a whole, was very compelling. After reading it, I promptly went to the Little Herds website and bought the chocolate chip cookie mix and some of the cricket flour. Since buying these, I’ve made chocolate chip cookies, bread, and a potpie with cricket flour. At first, Jason was not a fan of this. To be fair, I started off with the cookies which was a mistake. The cookies were good. But Jason might be obsessed with chocolate chip cookies and didn’t appreciate the change in flavor (even though it’s slight). The bread and potpie were much easier to get by him. Read …