But I can’t help defending my treatment of this non-existent iguana. You should not be feeding your iguana waxworms.”Īt this point, I should hang up. It just says ‘waxworms.’ What do you want them for?” The Petsmart guy says, “Let me see.” He puts me on hold. I called PetSmart on the west side and was connected with live reptile department. I’ve never had a lizard-or anything-to buy bugs for. It’s weird to think of a grocery run to Petsmart. I figured it would be the same place you would get bugs to feed a pet lizard. I decided to start my insect-cooking journey with the wax moth tacos popularized by the Don Bugito food cart in San Francisco and featured in Daniella Martin’s awesome entomophagy treatise, Edible: An Adventure into the World of Eating Insects and the Last Great Hope to Save the Planet.įirst, I had to figure out where to get the bugs to eat. I cooked terrestrial arthropods, not the more culinary-acceptable aquatic arthropod. Although New Englanders playfully refer to lobsters as “bugs.”

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