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The Battalion
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CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) — Ifyou
eat a normal American diet, you eat
about a pound of bugs a year.
Your gut reaction may be one of
nausea. But the truth is, says an Ore
gon State University entomologist,
they're not bad for you. Dried cater
pillar larvae, for example, have
more protein than an equal amount
of dried beef.
Associate Professor Michael Bur-
gett says bits and pieces of insects are
unavoidable in such staples as pea
nut butter, potatoes and tomato
juice.
So since we eat insects anyway, we
should give up our demands for per
fect produce, which would end
heavy use of chemicals and pesti
cides.
Besides, he says, a steaming plate
of bamboo worm larvae is consid
ered a delicacy in some parts of the
world.
Burgett illustrates his point to his
students. Falling back on culinary se
crets he learned while doing re
search around the world, he whips
up some tasty dishes — and encour
ages the students to try them.
“There’s always a lot of interest in
my insect dishes,” Burgett says.
“They look, smell and taste good.
But I can’t really say I’ve made a lot
of dietary converts.”
In many countries, insects are
common food staples. Burgett says
many native cultures in South Amer
ica include insects in their diets, as
do hunter-gatherer societies, such as
the Australian aborigines.
Eskimos eat head lice during mu
tual grooming rituals, he says, and
some American Indian tribes of the
western United States had native
dishes of fly pupae.
“But we’re not talking about an
appetite for insects only in the dis
tant past or among remote South
American tribes,” Burgett says.
“In some modern, more devel
oped nations such as Thailand, vir
tually everyone eats some type of in
sects. You buy them in the
supermarket like milk and eggs.”
While doing research in Thailand,
Burgett sampled some unusual fare.
A giant waterbug — two inches long,
one inch tall and roasted — is a local
favorite. T he larvae and pupae of
ants also add zest to an omelette.
A fine restaurant in Bangkok
might offer insect dishes in season,
Burgett says, just as a good Ameri-
I here’s always a lot of
interest in my insect
dishes. They look, smell
and taste good. But I can’t
really say I’ve made a lot of
dietary converts.”
— Michael Burgett,
entomologist
can eatery would offer shad roe in
early spring or fresh strawberry
shortcake in June.
And, according to him, the coun
try’s thriving silk industry offers a
fringe benefit for connoisseurs —
silkworm pupae “taste great and are
quite nutritious.”
If you’re interested in trying some
insect dishes, Burgett says, just
gat her a bunch of your favorite bugs
— ants, grasshoppers, whatever —
dry them in a warm oven, grind
them in a blender and use them as a
flour substitute for almost any rec
ipe, especially cookies.
Burgett’s favorite recipe for his
student banquets is bakuti, delicacy
of Nepal.
“Bakuti is based on the larvae and
pupae in a honeybee comb,” Burgett
says. “It’s full of protein and sort of
looks like a scrambled egg when it’s
done.
“In Nepal, they like their honey
bee products so much that special
climbers risk their lives to harvest
the hives of giant honeybees, which
are usually found on steep cliffs.”
To appease the American palate,
Burgett mixes the bakuti with cream
cheese and serves it on a Triscuit.
The motivation for the special
menu and his lectures on dietary in
sects in quite serious: Americans
need to accept the fact that their
food is grown in a real world full of
very real bugs.
And, Burgett says, our insistence
on pristine products can exact a high
environmental price.
Burgett says his dream is for envi
ronmental groups to start lobbying
the federal government for larger
allowable quantities of insects in our
foods.
That might permit farmers to use
more sustainable, healthy agricultu
ral practices with less reliance on
chemicals and pesticides, he says.
If we can’t overcome our squea
mishness, he says, consider God’s ad
vice to Aaron and Moses in Leviticus
11:22, King James version:
“Even these of them, ye may eat;
the locust after his kind, and the
bald locust after his kind, and the
beetle after his kind, and the grass
hopper after his kind.”
Entrepreneur making future heirlooms
AMARILLO (AP) — Charlene Bulls never received
formal training in business management.
But somewhere along the way, the Panhandle entre
preneur learned an important business basic — find out
what the public wants to buy, and sell it to them in large
quantities.
Transferring photographs to cloth via her own pat
ented process is the latest venture Bulls is offering to
the public. The idea seems to be a hit, she said, and
Bulls is gearing up for a business expansion.
Bulls turns photographs, drawings and paintings
into one-color or full-color prints on lightweight muslin
squares the size of sheets of typing paper for use in
quilting projects. She also makes iron-on transfers for
T-shirts or other handcrafts.
The copy process, done with modified office copying
machines, can be used for one-of-a-kind items, Bulls
said. A person with an exclusive drawing or photo
graph can have an exclusive T-shirt or fabric wall hang-
ing.
Members of small organizations who want club T-
shirts can design a logo and have a sfnall number of
transfers printed without investing in large quantities.
Quilting seems to be the biggest field for using the
ropy process, Bulls said. Customers are making unique
family heirloom quilts using prints of family pictures,
wedding announcements, birth announcements and
other memorabilia.
“We’re making antiques for the year 2090,” Bulls
said.
Dyed-in-the-cotton quilters who want to make quilts
the old fashioned way can buy fabric with cutting lines
printed on the fabric. For quilters who have lost some
mobility in their hands, Bulls sells cut pieces.
For people who don’t have much time to devote to
quilting, Bulls sells quilting kits containing iron-on quilt
pieces that are then covered with sheer fabric and
? |uilted with a simple running stitch. All kits utilize her
abric printing innovation.
Bulls discovered the copy process when she owned a
factory in Spearman in the early 1980s, in which she
and a staff of 16 made wooden furniture pieces that
had handmade, quilted insets on the fronts.
Bulls said the patterns that the workers used to trace
the designs for the insets onto fabric would wear out af
ter repeated use.
“What may have started out as a flower might look
like a circle after a while,” Bulls said.
Bulls was then cashing in on the popularity of “ho
memade” and “country" looks for interior decorating.
Her factory was producing furniture with appliqued or
pieced-quilt inlays to be shipped all over tne United
States, and Bulls developed a fast and accurate way to
transfer the cutting lines to fabric using her copying
machine.
“It just occurred to me that we could use the copier to
print photos on fabric,” she said. After a few adjust
ments to the machine, and a lot of experimenting to
make the color adhere to the fabric permanently, Bulls
began selling the fabric photographs.
In 1986 Bulls applied for a patent on the photo
printing process and received it in 1988. She opened
Fabric Fotos and Quilt Factory in Amarillo last year.
Bulls says she is just getting started in the new ven
ture. She has been selling the fabric photographs
through mail order catalogs. She is now retailing the
products from her store in Amarillo.
“I’m trying to create a track record in the retail busi
ness,” Bulls said, explaining that she is establishing a re
tail outlet foundation for a franchise chain that she may
develop later.
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