I could never intentionally make insects a part of my diet – I have hemochromatosis and the iron content of many of them is far too high for me. However this same high iron content, as well as a number of other nutritional benefits, makes insects an very beneficial part of many people’s diets indeed – as many as two billion of them by some estimates.
One of the sublime joys in my life is the making of connections. I receive an inexpressible tingle of delight each time I discover a link between two – or more – things of which I hd previously known no such linkage. Not surprisingly, more often than not, at least one of the things I am able to connect is a book.
When something is decreasing in quality, the common expression is that it has “gone to the dogs.” (As a dog enthusiast, I’ve never been particularly fond of this expression, but there it is…) However as the cover of the new second edition of the the Princeton Field Guide series’ Carnivores of the World has “gone from the dogs” of its first edition “to the cats,” can we interpret this as a sign that it has increased in quality?