On a walk along a popular Bangkok party street, Khao San Road , in 2024, I was stopped by purveyors of fried, dried, and sometimes raw grasshoppers, crickets, silkworms, water bugs, and even scorpions. Of the insects I tried, the silkworm was my favorite — crunchy but meaty —and the grasshopper was bad (think, legs stuck in teeth bad) . Once I washed them down with a swig of beer, I vowed, "Done it. Done. Never doing that again." And that was where I left it — a daring (

I was in the restaurant industry for years as a server, and if you work in fine-dining (or, for that matter, any restaurant in the Pacific Northwest), at some point, someone will ask, "Is your salmon wild or farmed?" Ten years ago, most restauranteurs had an easy answer. Wild-caught, of course. Always. Do you even have to ask? Public opinion of fish farms is generally poor , especially among progressives, for multiple and not wholly unfounded reasons: Fish are raised in crowd