A Gastronomic Adventure with Nordic Food Lab by Andreas Johnsen.
Insects as food is a hot topic. Particularly over the last few years, since the UN recommended edible insects as a resource to combat world hunger, they have been heralded for their taste by cooks and gastronomes, for their low ecological impact by environmentalists and for their nutritional content by public health scientists. It would seem that insects are the new superfood that will fix all our problems of global food security.
For the past three years a team from Copenhagen-based Nordic Food Lab made up of chefs and researchers Josh Evans, Ben Reade and Roberto Flore have been travelling the world to learn what some of the two billion people who already eat insects have to say. Nordic Food Lab is a self-governing not-for-profit institution, started jointly by René Redzepi, head chef of Noma and gastronomic entrepreneur Claus Meyer.
In “Bugs”, film director Andreas Johnsen follows them as they forage, farm, cook and taste insects with communities in Europe, Australia, Mexico, Kenya, Japan and beyond. During their journey they encounter everything from revered termite queens and desert-delicacy honey ants to venomous giant hornets and long-horned grasshoppers trapped using powerful floodlights, that sometimes cause their catchers temporary blindness.
Direction: Andreas Johnsen
Original Title: Bugs
Original Language: English
Subtitles: No subtitles
Film Production Country: Denmark