The girl improved the recipes by adding food beetles
Joy prepares pizza and stew with “secret” ingredients.
24-year-old joy Nemerson from Philadelphia “improving” popular dishes, adding them as a protein of beetles and larvae.
Pizza with crickets, ant eggs, fried grasshoppers are just some of the unique dishes in her diet. Joy has always been a very picky eater and suffered from the intolerance of individual products. Unusual diet has helped her to enjoy cooking and become a real foodie.
Joy works in the company for recycling. It is a supporter lifestyle, which does not harm the environment. “Insects are rich in protein and iron is exactly the same as meat. But they do not consume so many resources,” she said.
According to official data, animal responsible for 14.5% of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. But some organizations such as the Worldwatch Institute, talking about 51%.
UN experts have repeatedly taken the initiative to start introducing insects into the diet of people around the world. Among the most in demand in the future “bugs” are called grasshoppers, moth larvae, moth larvae, ants, termites, palm weevils, meal worms and others.
She realizes the prejudice people against insects. To look at beetles and larvae in a dish, to feel them in your mouth can really be frustrating, she says. But joy quickly coped with this feeling.
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