On this week’s blog, I will be sharing from conception to completion of Bugs on Toast. Our family has a little cottage house in Wilmington, which was actully our first home, and when we moved away, we kept turned it into a rental rather than selling. Since Wilmington is a little college town, a lot of times the house is rented to students, which is not the best option or thing to do. So on one such occassion, the students renting the property had made such a royal mess of the house. It was unbelievable. The neighbors called to say there would be about 5 different bands in the house at one time–now this is a 700 square-feet home. They had dogs, cats, you name it. So we came from out of town to clean up and assess the damages. These students had left our house in shambles. My two older kids were about 4 and 5 years old at the time and had never seen cockroaches or perhaps not that quantity at one time. Roaches crawled everywhere. I mean literally everywhere. After a while of the kids pointing these cockroaches out, I finally said, “why don’t we collect them, cook them and eat them. We’ll have some roaches on toast.” That turned the whole ugly situation around for the kids and we had fun instead thinking of eating the roaches instead. 
That is how the idea for the book, Bugs on Toast, was born. After researching, we found out that entomophagy, the art and science of eating insects, is quite a delicacy in many parts of the world. This is my daughter’s illustration of the book and we are definitely going to steal some of her ideas.
Stay tuned for more on making the book, Bugs on Toast. For those of you writers out there, I will re-post the article I did months back titled, Food for Thought: Where do you get your inspirations?
As always,
Be blessed,
~Arama Christiana
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