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...Come and get 'em: bugs are the hot, new culinary item in Thailand. Middle-class Thais in Bangkok are buzzing over the exoskeletal treats: "They have a rich texture, and the flavors are like nothing you've ever tasted," says Nusara Thaitawat, a former journalist and the author of Cuisine of Cambodia. And the business is creating a chain of modest wealth for farmers and sellers, making insects a commodity distributed across Thailand as efficiently as, say, artichokes in California. Tongchart supplies wholesalers as far north as Chiang Rai and as far south as Hat Yai. Some of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Craving the Crawlies | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

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