Bake-Off star Prue Leith urges Britons to eat BUGS instead of beef in a bid to help save the planet
- Prue Leith reveals she that has eaten deep-fried crickets and even worms
- The Great British Bake Off star also revealed her childhood maid ate termites
- She insisted that insects are a tasty and nutritious alternative source of protein
She founded an award-winning cookery school which offers courses on preparing the perfect steak.
But Prue Leith has suggested Britons should swap beef for bugs if they want to save the planet.
The Great British Bake Off star, 79, insisted insects are a tasty and nutritious alternative source of protein.
Prue Leith has suggested Britons should swap beef for bugs if they want to save the planet. The star, who founded Leith’s School of Food and Wine in 1975, said she recently ate ‘tasty’ food from The Bug Farm in St Davids, Pembrokeshire
And she said they are also much cheaper to farm because critters like ‘mealworms breed like rabbits’.
South Africa-born Miss Leith wrote in The Daily Telegraph: ‘I think we’ll find our squeamishness is misplaced. In my Johannesburg childhood garden, our Xhosa maid used to catch and eat termites as they flew out of the jacaranda tree.
‘I’ve also eaten mopane worms and, more successfully, deep-fried crickets. But anything crisp and deep-fried is good, is it not? The truth is we’re not going to be able to afford our cultural prejudices. To feed the world we need alternatives.’
The star, who founded Leith’s School of Food and Wine in 1975, said she recently ate ‘tasty’ food from The Bug Farm in St Davids, Pembrokeshire.
The menu includes sweet potato, spinach and cricket pakoras, mealworm hummus, and a ‘gourmet bug burger’ made with mealworms, crickets and grasshoppers.
Other dishes include chilli grasshopper sauce and black ants.
Prue Leith said she has also eaten mopane worms; one is pictured above. The star insisted insects are a tasty and nutritious alternative source of protein
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