Weird Wild Wonderful Paris Restaurants

Oui, dear read­er: I, whilst zig­ging and zag­ging with a group of out-of-town­ers on a « Best Crois­sants of Paris » walk, decid­ed to stop and take the group up on their offer of free bugs at the insect-activist restau­rant. Many times before, they had beck­oned me with their creepy, no longer crawlies, now ‘food’ accord­ing to some. So, gid­dy with carbs after the pas­try and cof­fee part of the after­noon, we took the leap into a dark place. I had been rub­bing my hands togeth­er in antic­i­pa­tion of tomme and bleu de chèvre, but ask not for whom the bell tolls. We are in Paris so let’s get philo­soph­i­cal: how many times have you eat­en a bug? Well, here you are eat­ing bugs, and you know it. Think about it like this: are escar­gots that far away on the spec­trum? Some refer to my beloved shrimp as « sea insects, » and dammit, I can not longer get the image out of my head. Sup­pos­ed­ly we share most of our DNA with red onions, too, so there’s that.