Part I. Meet the beetles! I call your name ; Here, there and everywhere ; She sometimes gives me her protein : insects as nutrition ; Ob-la-di, ob-la-da : the last green hope? -- Part II. Yesterday and today : insects and the origins of the modern world. I am the cockroach : how insects created the world ; Wild honey pie : how insects created people ; Magical mystery tour : how insects sustain the world -- Part III. I once had a bug : how people created insects. I'm chewing through you : insects as destroyers and monsters ; Run for your life : the war against insects and its consequences -- Part IV. Black fly singing : reimagining insects. Mother Mary comes to me : insects as creators and bodhisattvas ; Can't buy me bugs : a new age of negotiation -- Part V. Got to get you into my life. Leaving the west behind? : entomophagy in transition in non-western cultures ; She came in through the kitchen window : culinary renewal from the margins ; She came in through the chicken window : insects as feed in non-insect-eating cultures ; A cook with kaleidoscope eyes : insects on the menu -- Part VI. Revolution 1. It's so hard (loving you) : ethics and insects ; A little help : regulating entomophagy ; All you need is love? : renegotiating the human-insect contract ; We were talking : where is this going? -- Part VII. Revolution 9. Imagine : beetles, entomophagy, and the meaning of life