Martha dear, oh queen of bugs and etceteras. I do hope your newspaper carried the same wonderful article the Chicago Tribune did this morning (Sunday). While perusing to see if the NY Times article had been picked up, I couldn't help but chuckle and think of our 'net discussions when I read this headline: "Hold the pickle and lettuce; eating bugs shouldn't upset us." They didn't mention calcium, but apparently roasted leaf-cutter ants taste like bacon. In Thailand, grasshopeers are gathered in rural areas and sold in city markets in what has become a $6.5 million a year industry. Fried termites taste like french fries, crunchy & delicous. "It is estimated that some 500 species of insect - grasshoppers, crickets, caterpillars, termites, aquatic insects, bees, wasp broods - all appear on menus somewhere in our world. Dried insects are 60 to 70 percent protein; when reconstituted are about 20% protein, very similar to red meat. Caterpillars & termites contain 6 to 7 calories per gram, more than almost any other food. They are lycine-rish and supply iron, especially important to pregnant women; zinc, thiamine and riboflavin. Ginny, Cooling cabbage gel? And what do we do with that? Vanilla cream for the nipples? Will that counteract the vanilla scented pacifiers that R--s Labs graciously gives to hospitals?? It is H-O-T and sunny here in Chicago... 'bout time.... everyone is off to the pool 'cept me; oh well. :( Jan B. P.S. Kathleen - make my T-shirt XL.