We are Edible Insect Ambassadors

Chef Joseph Yoon, an Edible Insect Ambassador, is a world renowned chef and thought leader in “entomophagy,” or eating insects, and tours around the world to share the incredible potential of not only edible insects, but the burgeoning innovation in Insect Agriculture to impact the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and address the challenges of food security, climate change, health & nutrition, workforce activation, environmentalism, and sustainability.

We are grateful to tour globally and receive funding and grants from universities, museums, and institutions to share our work.

Please feel free to contact us if you are interested in exploring meaningful ways we can work and collaborate together. We are currently available for speaking engagements, workshops, lectures, and demonstrations.

Please visit this link to see a TON of our press, videos, and podcasts: https://linktr.ee/brooklynbugs

Feb 20-23, 2024 - KPBS / NPR Interview, Article, and Video

Feb 20-23, 2024 - San Diego State University Residency

Nov 20th - Lecture at The Explorers Club, “Can Eating Insects Save the Planet?” Click to watch.

Nov 14th, 2023 - Food Lab Talk Podcast - Listen HERE.

Oct 19, 2023 - Redesigning Our Food Systems for Space and a Healthy Planet

Honored to be a Member of the prestigious Explorer’s Club - a historic organization dedicated to the advancement of field research, scientific exploration, and conservation.

Oct 2, 2023 - Glasshouse & Maleny Country News

Chef Yoon will be in Australia from Oct 4th - Oct 30th, 2023

May 1, 2023 - GQ/Most Expensivest with 2Chainz

July 17, 2023 - Kitchen Metamorphosis: Edible Insects - Presentation at the American Culinary Federation’s National Convention

Voted Viewer’s Choice Award for Live with Kelly and Ryan Appearance in 2021!

2022 - Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

Sept 6, 2023 - Chosun Ilbo - Korea’s longest running daily newspaper

Chef Joseph attending COP27 as a Chef Advocate for the United Nations’ International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

New feature in PNAS - one of the most cited interdisciplinary journals in the world.

Chef Joseph Yoon featured in part three of a NYT Opinion Video Series.

“The Joy of Eating Insects,” by Atlas Obscura

Honored to partner with the United Nations’ International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) - Recipes for Change

Chef Yoon - Culinary Advisor to the Methuselah Foundation in support of NASA’s Deep Space Food Challenge (2022).

Chef Joseph Yoon - Culinary Director - Insects to Feed the World 2022 Conference - https://ifw2022.org/

Epicurious Method Mastery featuring Chef Joseph Yoon

Video Presentation for 4-H’s National Youth Summit for Agri-Science (2022)

PBS Nova’s Episode on Edible Insects - https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/edible-insects/

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, Padma Lakshmi - https://www.netflix.com/title/81206559

CNN’s Going Green Profile on Chef Joseph Yoon

Asian American Life on PBS

A celebration of Brood X Cicadas 2021!! Please visit https://linktr.ee/brooklynbugs to see links to all our press around the beautiful cicada emergence.

We love this piece that Yara Elmjouie did with AJ+ as they discuss the psychology behind why we find eating insects disgusting. Fun, engaging, and educational, this is a video we’d highly recommend you watch as we serve an eleven course dinner featuring edible insects!

World Economic Forum feature about why we should eat insects.

We are honored that this documentary by Food Curated won the “Bloomberg Made in NY Award” at the Food Film Festival in 2019.