True bugs and true foods

This episode is about bugs, bugs as food, and then global cuisines and what happens to foods that are transposed outside of their original habitat.

Recorded on 24 May 2020, before Bon Appetit imploded.

Hemiptera

On Data Formats and Speciation

Speech Jammer

Chagas disease

Wheel bug

Periodical cicadas

Independent divergence of 13- and 17-y life cycles among three periodical cicada lineages

Cave Dwellers, 1938

Moths come out to enjoy the weather

Fried spider

Competition with insectivorous ants as a contributor to low songbird diversity at low elevations in the eastern Himalaya

Boiled eggs > Soft-boiled eggs

The Bon Appetit test kitchen's race problem

Alison Roman, Bon Appétit, and the 'Global Pantry' Problem

7 (New York City Subway service)

Pandanus amaryllifolius

Tangyuan (food)

Peanut sauce