From Niagara This Week:
Jeff Stewart takes pride in feeding insects to others.
It’s not that he has any perverse intentions. He’s not in it the business of cooking up critters for the shock value. Rather, he wants to use his creepy-crawly culinary skills to open cultural boundaries in Canada and wants North Americans to consider swerving from the straight and narrow approach he said we’ve become accustomed to when talking about and consuming food.
“It’s not about the shock factor,” said the Niagara Falls chef who was at the Niagara Parks Butterfly Conservatory over the weekend for the first International Insect Food Festival. “I want to try to create more open minds as to what food is.”