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"When I visited SE Asia a couple years ago, my tour group stopped at a roadside market in Chiang Mai, where one of us picked up a bag of smoked Grasshoppers\u2014a delicacy in Thailand. As we continued our journey, we passed the bag around and watched each other take our first bites of bug. The truth is, it&amp;#039;s not uncommon to see someone absentmindedly snacking on a bag of bugs in that and some other regions of the world, and now it seems the trend may make its way to the states. At least that&amp;#039;s what chef Phil Ross set out to prove on Saturday night. At The Brooklyn Kitchen, the entomophagist (person who eats bugs) put together a dinner party called &amp;quot;Entomo Cuisine,&amp;quot; an $85 four-course insect dinner complete with a menu featuring meal worms in garlic and corn custard with moth larvae. But, sustainability aside, enomaphagy has been acknowledged for both its therapeutic and culinary appeal, too. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m so glad I did it,&amp;quot; one animal-phobic dinner attendee told The New York Times. &amp;quot;Because that&amp;#039;s why I came here. I overcame something. If I can do this, I can do anything,&amp;quot; to which Ross responded that he sees that kind of reaction all the time. Another diner swooned at the bite of a yellow worm, which she said tasted like corn. So, too, even celebrities eat them for enjoyment. Salma Hayek recently announced on David Letterman that she frequently eats grasshoppers, ants and worms. (Maybe they&amp;#039;re the next big dieting trend, too!) Advocate Mark Dennis told the Brooklyn Paper, &amp;quot;This is going to take off at some point, but at the same time, I don&amp;#039;t think it will be soon.&amp;quot; What do you think? \u2013 Brynn Mannino, Assistant Editor "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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