{"id":10152,"date":"2011-08-29T13:00:31","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T17:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=10152"},"modified":"2011-08-29T09:01:21","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T13:01:21","slug":"cooking-up-bugs-on-clifton-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/29\/cooking-up-bugs-on-clifton-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooking up bugs on Clifton Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3275179\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Daniella Martin is an entomophagy advocate.<\/p>\n<p>To the uninitiated, that means she eats bugs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Insects are fabulous food,&#8221; she said with confidence.<\/p>\n<p>(Her personal favourites are wax worms, bees, wasps and fried bamboo worms).<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. host of the web-based show Girl Meets Bug travels the globe to share her passion with others.<\/p>\n<p>According to Martin, insects are the most environmentally-friendly source of protein on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, she set up a makeshift kitchen outside Guinness World Records Museum on Clifton Hill and invited passers-by to sample a few fried delicacies which included crickets, scorpions and tarantulas.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of brave souls who accepted her offer said the bugs &#8220;taste like chicken.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Daniella Martin is an entomophagy advocate. To the uninitiated, that means she eats bugs. &#8220;Insects are fabulous food,&#8221; she said with confidence. (Her personal favourites are wax worms, bees, wasps and fried bamboo worms). The U.S. host of the web-based show Girl Meets Bug travels the globe to share her&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26,2],"tags":[6089,6087,6085,59,1010,6090,6081,6091,6084,6038,116,6088,6082,6083,6080,6086,6079],"class_list":["post-10152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-events","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-advocate","tag-bamboo-worms","tag-bees","tag-clifton-hill","tag-crickets","tag-daniella-martin","tag-delicacies","tag-entomophagy","tag-girl-meets-bug","tag-guinness-world-records","tag-guinness-world-records-museum","tag-protein","tag-scorpions","tag-tarantulas","tag-taste-like-chicken","tag-wasps","tag-wax-worms"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}