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Product details Paperback 54 pages Publisher Iris Press (March 15, 2019) Language English ISBN-10 1604545097

Think I'll Go Eat a Worm Amy Wright 9781604545098 Books Reviews

• Amy Wright has given us an exquisite and most welcome book in her collection of essays THINK I'LL GO EAT A WORM. I was won over in the first essay, "MÄ“l," by her account of her introduction to eating insects on a first date (!), cooking and learning as she went along. Wright illuminates how the amino acid-rich proteins in insects can address food insecurity and other issues facing us today, in a socially and economically conscious way. As longtime readers of Wright's work appreciate, her writing is warm, engaging, and acutely intelligent, in the lineage of Annie Dillard, Terry Tempest Williams, and Rachel Carson. In the title essay, "Think I'll Go Eat a Worm," she writes "The bodies of these insects are on display in this feast like nude rose petals in a still life." She interweaves her own remarkable experiences of growing up on a farm with history and scientific insight so as to grace us with wonder and hope for our collective future.
• Think I’ll Go Eat a Worm is a lovely book of essays about insects as human food. This really is an engaging, informative book. Beyond its good humor and conversational ease and beyond its germane information about the nutritional value of insects as food and the environmental sustainability of insect production as food, I love these essays’ mindfulness and their enlightened concern with living on our planet in way to honor our life-giving biosphere. It seems destiny that the author would be her family’s seventh generation of their farm. It’s nice to think of her growing up helping her dad deliver calves. It’s lovely to think of her as one of a bus of high school cheerleaders descending on a roadside restaurant and carelessly squirting ketchup on their uniforms, to go on to being so thoughtful about food and food systems and our planet. I appreciate the author’s love for the agrarian and the rural. I highly recommend this book.