We are Edible Insect Ambassadors

Chef Joseph Yoon, an Edible Insect Ambassador, is a world renowned chef and thought leader and tours around the world to share the delicious potential of Edible Insects, and the burgeoning innovation of Insect Agriculture and its impact on global food systems and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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.

Aug 10th - Live with Kelly and Mark (12 min segment)

We are currently booking our tour dates. Please feel free contact us to discuss.

June 5, 2024 - Scientific American Podcast

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

May 14, 2024 - Georgia Public Broadcasting

Feb 15, 2024 - The House of Wellness, Australia

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

Feb 20, 2024 - BBC Radio 4 - Things Fell Apart

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.

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

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.

“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/

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

Epicurious Method Mastery featuring Chef Joseph Yoon

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

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!

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

World Economic Forum feature about why we should eat insects.