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"Creativity isn’t doing something that nobody has ever done before. It’s doing the same thing that everybody does, but doing it better."

Crispy Bugs: Crickets and larvae of some kind. Fly larvae I’d guess. Commonly fried with a little oil.

Ricotta and sumac paper: Ricotta is a semisolid cheese made of sheep’s milk. Sumac is a sour berry used in the Mediterranean as a seasoning. They probably made it into ‘paper’ by spreading the mixture thinly and drying it out.

Green Mango and pineapple millefeuille: A Mille-feuille is a french dessert that is alternating layers of pastry and cream. Presumably the cream has green mango and pineapple in it.

This looks awesome, I have to hand it to Chef Poirot for making me give bugs a second thought. My only concern: I haven’t eaten a cricket, but I have eaten a fried scorpion. The thing is, exoskeleton is tasteless and feels like chewing crinkly plastic. I’m not very fond of it. My guess is that crickets have the same kinda thing going? Then again, if you hull those lil guys, they’ll sort of cease to look like crickets, and diners will have to play ‘guess which ingredient is a bug’ while eating. It’s a catch-22 I guess?