Village Voice by Alan Scherstuhl
It’s gently comic, a touch naïve, and somewhat moving: These idealists are ready to fight to keep creepy-crawlies farm to table.
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Netherlands, Denmark, France · 2016
1h 15m
Director Andreas Johnsen
Starring Ben Reade
Genre Documentary
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Chef Ben Reade and researcher Josh Evans from the Nordic Food Lab are looking to popularize edible insects as the future of sustainable food. They set out on a mission to take on the politics of the palate, sampling grubs in Australia, pillaging giant wasp nests in Japan, and attending food expos with farmed crickets.
Village Voice by Alan Scherstuhl
It’s gently comic, a touch naïve, and somewhat moving: These idealists are ready to fight to keep creepy-crawlies farm to table.
The New York Times by Ben Kenigsberg
Bugs, an entertaining and eye-opening documentary from Andreas Johnsen, will send moviegoers out with a feeling of culinary adventurousness, eager to sample well-prepared escamoles (ant larvae) or termite queen with mango.
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Brad Wheeler
Though it might initially look like a wacky foodie adventure show, Bugs has a conscience.
Los Angeles Times by Gary Goldstein
Input from a broader range of chefs and food experts, as well as sociologists and scientists, could have better fleshed out this brief study.
Slant Magazine by Keith Watson
It begins as a gleeful deadpan comedy and ends up as an exasperated cri de cœur against our current system of industrialized food production and distribution.
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