Some things are hard to stomach

WHEN the French gastronomic writer Jean Anthelme Savarin-Brillat wrote: “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are”, he got his teeth into an insight that spread like peanut butter.

- With Graham Davies

After all, they say the French eat snails because they avoid fast food, but then, like many creepy crawlies, they are also high in protein and a number of vitamins and minerals.