Daniels alum and MArch graduate, Jakub Dzamba, was recently interviewed on several CBC radio stations across the country to comment on the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation’s recently released report about entomophagy, otherwise known as eating insects. 

Click here to listen to one of Dzamba's radio interviews.

Dzamba's MArch thesis also focused on entomophagy, entitled "Third Millenium Farming. It's Time for Another Farming Revolution: Smaller, Cheaper, Sustainable". He is currently pursuing his PhD in architecture at McGill University and is working on an approach to urban agriculture called Third Millennium Farming (3MF), that utilizes bio-wastes (such as grey water and black water) to grow micro-crops (such as algae and grass), which are then fed to micro-livestock (insects). The micro-livestock are humanely euthanized to create a new ingredient called insect-flour that is used by chefs in culinary experiments. Dzamba's work focuses on exploring how 3MF systems will change city and infrastructure design and make cities more sustainable.

Dzamba was also a featured speaker at Future Food Salon, an event dedicated to exploring insects as a future food source, which took place in Toronto on Thursday, April 18, 2013. The event featured innovative insect ingredients and cuisines (like cricket-flour sliders) and also showed some of Dzamba's domestic cricket-reactor prototypes, which are currently in the process of being patented by McGill. See a short film documenting the event below:

Jakub was also the featured speaker at a second Future Food Salon event in New York on Wednesday, August 14, 2013. After his appearance at the event, Jakub was featured in numerous media outlets, including:

"A sustainable factory farm that spits out crickets", Fastcompany

"Would you like some crickets with that? How six-legged snacks have New York foodies all abuzz - AND they're a great source of protein", Daily Mail (UK)

"What eating crickets is really like", PopSci

"Cricket canapes a hit at Future Food Salon", Gothamist

"Would you eat a cricket canape? New Yorkers devour chirp-worthy delights at the Future Food Salon", Inhabitat

"Cricket cookies and urban insect farming", Treehugger

"Lang and O'Leary Exchange", CBC

"Eating crickets to save the world (recipes included!)", Marketplace