RealClearLife article by Diana Crandall and cooking video with our own resident ChefPV!
Peavy, known professionally as ChefPV, didn’t plan on cooking up insects when he moved to New York more than 20 years ago. In fact, he wasn’t planning on being a chef at all, even though he’s gone on to serve up five-star meals for the likes of Madonna, Spike Lee, Mariah Carey and the Obamas. With a degree in communications and a background in the entertainment world, it wasn’t until Peavy got out of reality TV and started hanging around a vegetarian spot called Phoebe’s Cafe in Williamsburg more than a decade ago that he was rejected from, and then ultimately landed, his first job in a kitchen.
You also have to love bugs if you want to get as deep in the weeds with them as Peavy is. He’s a pioneer in the field of entomophagy, which is the human use of insects as food, and he loves to tell anyone who will listen about it. Using his entertainment experience to his advantage, he regularly appears as the resident chef on the Ento Nation (woohoo!) podcast and starred in his own video web series, Buggin’ Out, which combines a ton of education disguised by a Fear Factor-esque shock value viewers will have a hard time looking away from.
