Cricket pie
It may or may not be the way to get a leg up on Whole Foods, but Summerhill Market has decided to stock insects. The owner of Summerhill, at Summerhill Ave. near Glen Road, has told the CBC that the long-time fine food retailer to the rich is now offering BBQ, Moroccan-spiced and honey mustard flavoured insects ($1.69 per two-gram pack) to get ahead of the current trend. What trend? Anyway, Christy McMullen notes that insects are eaten all over the world, even though there is no discernible demand in Toronto for this type of food. However, because such notions as sustainability are fashionable with consumers, and eating bugs meets that demand, Summerhill is taking a chance. “They’re low in fat, high in iron, high in calcium [and] they come with nine essential amino acids,” said McMullen. Some of the items the store sells: mealworm protein balls, chocolate covered crickets and cricket pie. To make the key lime pie, cooks make cricket flour, and it’s topped with chocolate-covered crickets. “With the pie, you wouldn’t even notice, the bugs are all ground up,” said McMullen. All the insects, including salt-and-pepper seasoned mealworms ($1.69 per two-gram pack) and organic cricket flour ($15.99 per 113-gram bag), are from Entomo Farms in Ontario.
