What Is Bug Vivant?

Bug Vivant is an English-language online hub for edible insect gastronomy. It publishes recipes, product reviews, and event coverage, and it states its mission as making gourmet edible insects more accessible to the Western world. It is aimed at home cooks, curious eaters, and anyone interested in insects as a sustainable protein source. If you are looking for a starting point on cooking with crickets, waxworms, or other edible insects, this site is built for that purpose.

What the site covers

The homepage describes Bug Vivant as "your online culinary hub for edible insect recipes, product reviews, events and much more." Its content falls into a few recognizable categories:

• Recipes — featured examples include Choco Chirpies (chocolate chip cricket cookies), old-fashioned oatmeal cricket cookies, gluten-free cricket carrot cupcakes, and chocolate cremeux with toasted crickets.
• Product reviews — the site reviews edible insect products and ingredients.
• Events and trip reports — a "BugWall Full Trip Report" documents an edible-insect-powered El Capitan ascent, written as a first-person account.
• Where-to-buy guides — posts cover sourcing specific insects, such as jumiles, gusanos, and chapulines.

The sourcing angle

A recurring theme is where to actually buy edible insects, especially varieties traditional in central Mexico. The site's posts on jumiles (stink bugs native to the Taxco region of Guerrero), gusanos (maguey worms), and chapulines (Oaxacan grasshoppers) each explain what the insect is and point readers toward buying options. The site also links to purchase pages for waxworms and other edible insects.

If your main question is "where do I get edible insects," those posts are the most directly useful part of the site.

Who it is for

Bug Vivant is written for a Western audience that is new to or curious about entomophagy. The framing assumes you may not have eaten insects before and treats them as a gourmet ingredient rather than a novelty. The site also positions edible insects as "one of the most sustainable forms of proteins on the face of the earth," so readers coming from a sustainability angle will find that argument throughout.

Practical notes

• The site is in English and its content dates largely to 2015, so treat it as a reference and recipe source rather than a live news feed.
• Purchase links exist for some insects, but the site does not publish pricing details in the material available, so check the linked pages directly for current cost and availability.
• Recipes are the most reusable part: they give you a concrete way to try edible insects in familiar formats like cookies and cupcakes rather than as a standalone dish.