Foreign students get busy plating food at the Korean Food Institute of Sookmyung Women’s University in Seoul on Aug. 19, 2016. The students are participating in the institute’s program that teaches traditions in cooking Korean cuisine. (Photo provided by Sookmyung Women’s University) (Yonhap)
The food scene in Busan is one for the books, namely for its large selection of restaurants and various cuisines.https://t.co/sltLlZzGcG
— 10 Magazine Korea (@10_Magazine) July 5, 2016
Shabu-shabu is the treadmill of foods. You eat and eat, and it doesn't feel like you're go… https://t.co/k0CGfUFX2k pic.twitter.com/aIqTE8YNp7
— J. D. McPherson (@ZenKimchi) April 12, 2016
Oops! http://t.co/fkKvPJBsQK pic.twitter.com/29NEmhhQ1O
— J. D. McPherson (@ZenKimchi) August 24, 2015
I would not want to be the taste tester for this job:
Grasshopper croquette served with mealworm coffee sherbet, beetle powder-crusted fried chicken, and sweet pumpkin porridge topped with dried cricket, pickled larva and assorted vegetables.
These are some of the recipes submitted to a government-hosted insect cooking contest late last month as South Korea experiments with the culinary potential of six-legged creatures.
The event was the latest of Seoul’s efforts to foster the insect industry as it searches for new sources of livestock and ways to help cash-strapped farms find new profit makers.
In 2010, the government announced the legislation of a special law aimed at fostering the insect industry, valued at 168 billion won (US$151 million) in 2011 and forecast to reach 298 billion won next year. (Yonhap)
You can read more at the link, but that sure is a lot of money being project to get people to eat bugs.
