Gin, Pasta and Lamingtons. Entomophagy (eating Insects) in Australia

16 September 2025

September 2025

In 2021 the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) published Edible insects: A roadmap for the strategic growth of an emerging Australian industry. ‘With the global population predicted to reach 9.7 billion by 2050, one of the biggest challenges in our lifetimes will be securing enough food for everyone. We have only finite land and water resources, and climate change, environmentally harmful practices and emerging diseases threaten supply chains. One way to deal with this is to turn to our insect friends.’

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Paul van Reyk
My first essay on food was in Year 10 - people seemed to like it. It took me 56 years to come back to it, so I have a lot of catching up to do. My focus is on Anglo-Saxon settler culinary ways in Australia, roughly from the first days of colonisation to the 1960s - 1970s. I particularly write about stuff that has not been written about before but is very much a part of the Anglo-Saxon Australian table. I hope you enjoy reading as much as I do writing.