Toasted grasshoppers are used as a garnish in Mexico (Image: La Chiquita)
With doomsayers predicting impending apocalypse (they really mean it this time), food is probably going to be a lot harder to find by Christmas 2012. And even if the world doesn’t end, for some reason, we’ll probably run out of food by 2050 anyway. Since insects seem to stick around no matter what, the good people at Slate have put together an informative post about how to take up entomophagy like all the cool kids. After the jump, five tips for eating bugs that you should probably commit to memory (since Internet access might get laggy when the four horsemen hit town):
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Last Friday, Queen West menswear shop Nomad became the latest Toronto-based menswear store to launch an 
The place: The latest in the city’s string of pop-up shops is Frye, which has taken up residence inside Ron White’s swanky Bloor Street store. It has the biggest selection of the brand’s boots, shoes and bags in the country. Frye was founded in 1863 and is the oldest continuously operating shoe company in the United States. Its boots were worn by soldiers during the Civil War, and Teddy Roosevelt and now by Barack Obama. 
As the din of snapping cameras and movie buzz dies down in Toronto, cineastes south of the border are weighing in on how this year’s TIFF stacked up to previous years (note: the festival doesn’t officially end until Sunday). This morning, the famous film industry trade journal Variety 
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