After his intriguing appearance on the Colbert Report in 2008, I invited David Gracer, entomophagy (insect eating) advocate, to write up his manifesto for Spooning. That piece is worth a gander, as is this new video from The Perennial Plate series, featuring Gracer and chef Daniel Klein hunting and cooking up some edible insects. (And no, I have no idea either why they used “Tried by 12,” Spencer Bellamy’s hip-hop ballad about inner city violence, as the soundtrack for harvesting katydids with butterfly nets…)

The Perennial Plate Episode 78: Eating Insects from Daniel Klein on Vimeo.