Crunchy, full of protein and to be found under a rock near you. Insects have long been overlooked as food in all but a handful of places around the world – but now they are crawling closer and closer to our plates. Spring 2013 will see a drive towards removing the yuck factor and putting insects not just on experimental gastronomic menus but also on supermarket shelves. In April, there will be a festival in London, Pestival 2013 – a Wellcome Trust-backed insect appreciation event where the consumption of creepy-crawlies comes high on the agenda. It will feature a two-day “pop-up” restaurant by the Nordic Food Lab, the Scandinavian team behind the Danish restaurant Noma, which brought ants to the table for a sellout ten-day run at Claridge’s hotel in London in 2012.
Why does the author mention the Danish restaurant Noma?
To inform about the Nordic Food Lab’s pop-up restaurant at Pestival To show how popular Nordic food is in London restaurants As evidence that insects are an important aspect of people’s diets in other parts of the world As evidence that Danish restaurants are popular