Have you ever fantasized about all you can eat crispy crunchy creepy crawlers? Yeah, me neither. But, this entire weekend you can have the pleasure of sampling the new frontier of exotic eating at the Brooklyn Bugs Festival — the city’s first insect-eating festival.

Kicking off on Friday, this three-day festival invites insect-friendly chefs and scientists to venues like T.B.D. Brooklyn, Kinfolk 94, Brooklyn Kitchen, for presentations, cooking demos, cocktail socials, an outdoor market, and even a VIP Bug Banquet featuring David George Gordon, known as the “Bug Chef”.

“I really like grasshoppers a lot,” Gordon said. “Grasshopper kebabs with a little teriyaki glaze are very tasty.”

The event, according to its website, hopes to explore the “gastronomical, sustainable, and ecologically friendly aspects of entomophagy.”

Eating bugs has been a common theme all over the globe for centuries, but the Western world has carried a stigma that has discouraged the delicacy. Even the United Nations recommends eating insects as a sustainable source of protein.
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Robyn Shapiro, co-founder of Seek and lover of crickets helped organize the event and told AM New York what she wanted people to take away from this unique weekend.

“Not everything is for everyone,” Shapiro said. “I just hope people walk away with an open mind. We’re not asking people to try crickets necessarily, but I want them to have an open mind.”

Ticket prices range from Sunday’s FREE after-party to $25 admission for Saturday’s Outdoor Vendor Market to $199 for the true bug enthusiast entire weekend of fun.