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Cricket Pizzas for Foodie Reads 2016

May was a productive month for my  Foodie Reads 2016 Challenge , I have carved out full afternoons to read this month - meaning, I ordered my family to leave me alone while I crawled under the covers and devoured pages and pages of books. After making Cricket Chip Cookies for my Bizarre Foods SEM , I came across  Edible: An Adventure into the World of Eating Insects and the Last Great Hope to Save the Planet  by Daniella Martin.* Timely. On the Page... I have to admit: I didn't love this book. It was okay. The subject is even wildly compelling for me. So, it means something that I struggled to get through this. Well, I struggled through the first 100 pages or so. And, considering that the book itself is only about 130 pages, not including the voluminous introduction...well, you can do the math. I definitely didn't love this book. She starts off as too much of a treatise and less of a narrative. For pages and pages she details the FCR (food conversion ratio) ...