Sideways World

Host Joshua Frank travels to China’s Yunnan Province, ground zero of the country’s booming edible insect industry, to understand why locals prize what much of the world dismisses as pests. From touring a wasp farm and cooking grub worms to harvesting cockroaches in the countryside, Josh dives hands-on into the culture, cuisine, and labor behind insect consumption. Along the way, he meets experts and the founder of Livin Hive, a startup helping people create indoor worm farms, to explore how this unconventional food source could offer surprising sustainability benefits for the future.