For people looking to keep the holiday tradition of sharing a meal with family and friends but who also want to be a little bit kinder to the planet this year, here’s an event for you.
The Center for People and Forests and Sheepshank Public House host “Low Carbon for Christmas” on December 18. The festive feast focuses on environmentally conscious food, drink, and entertainment.
Sheepshank has created a tapas and cocktail menu for the event, with ingredients specifically chosen to have a low carbon footprint. Menu items include: citrus black rice arancini with pickled beetroot, bai yira pesto with cricket pasta, and red ant chutney and samosas. That’s right, ants and crickets.
Although many might squirm at the thought of feasting on creepy crawly cuisine, the reality is that nearly 80 percent of world eats bugs regularly — and there are many reasons to join them.
“I want people to get used to the idea of eating insects and break stereotypes surrounding them,” said Joke Pairojmahakij, one of Sheepshank’s founders.
As the global population nears 9 billion, agricultural production will need to increase by 70 percent. While meat, especially beef, is incredibly resource intensive, insects can produce the same amount of protein with just one tenth of the resources. And, as the organizers hope to prove at this event, maybe they can even taste good.
This eco-friendly feast will also focus on local and organic produce to further reduce the menu’s carbon “food-print.” By cutting down on the distance it takes for food to get to the table and eliminating fertilizers and pesticides from production, fewer greenhouse gases will be emitted to create the food.
Purchase tickets by tomorrow for an early-bird discount price of THB800. After that, tickets will cost THB1000 per person. They include all you can eat tapas and two cocktails.
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Sunday, Dec. 18
3-6pm
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