A plate of insects ready for cooking, Tokyo, Japan, 28 October, 2008.

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Tokyo resident Shoichi Uchiyama is the author of Fun Insect Cooking. His blog on the topic gets 400 hits a day. He believes insects could be the solution to world food shortages, and that rearing bugs at home could dispel food safety worries

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Location: Tokyo, Japan.
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License: Licensed
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Keywords: bug, cooking, cuisine, eating, entomophagy, ingredient, insect, plate, shoichi, uchiyama