Insectos como plato principal

"The Human Use of Insects as a Food Resource:
A Bibliographic Account in Progress" --Jane R de Foliart

Table of Contents and Preface
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Preface

Part I. Introduction, The Western Hemisphere and Europe

Chapter  1. Introduction (not yet written)

Chapter  2. Insect Foods of North American Indigenous Populations North of Mexico (pp. 1-95)                     

Chapter  3. The Use of Insects as Food in Mexico  (pp. 1-49)

Chapter  4. Central America and Caribbean Islands  (pp. 1-11)

Chapter  5. South America: Overview  (pp. 1-10)

Chapter  6. South America: Brazil  (pp. 1-20)

Chapter  7. South America: Colombia  (pp. 1-15)

Chapter  8. Other Countries in South America  (pp. 1-23)

Chapter  9. Western Attitudes Toward Insects as Food: Europe, The United States, Canada  (pp. 1-40)

Chapter 10. Western Research on Insects as Food and Animal Feedstuffs  (pp. 1-30)

 
BOLIVIA

             Only three reports are known of insect consumption in Bolivia.  According to Holmberg (1950; vide Hitchcock 1962: 184), one tribe, the Siriono, doesn't eat insects.

                                                                     Coleoptera

 Curculionidae (weevils, snout beetles)

             Guise (date?), who served for several years as an engineer in Bolivia, reported seeing several peons cutting into some palm trees that had been felled to make way for a road (vide Cutright 1943: 314).  They were "busily opening up the fibrous centers of the logs and extracting numerous fat white grubs which they carefully put into a tin can.  The peons, when asked for an explanation, replied that these larvae were tutuyus and that they were a great delicacy.  That night they fried them over a fire and ate them with unmistakable relish."

                                                                        Diptera

             La Barre (1948: 59) reported that the Aymara Indians of the Lake Titacaca Plateau sometimes made a chili-flavored ragout of the larvae of an aquatic Diptera species called cici.

 

                                                                   Hymenoptera

 Apidae (honey bees, bumblebees)

             Irvine (1957: 125) mentions that the Chaco Indians eat "bee brood."

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