Crazy Useful

About

Crazy Useful started as a question: What is gum arabic, and where does it come from?

Meet the book that started it all, now available on Amazon.

A work-in-progress compendium of modern and vintage cottage industries.

How much wax does the average American eat in one year?

Posted on September 4, 2019 by Heidi McDonald

If there are over 8000 species of insect known to be edible, why don’t we eat more bugs?

Posted on July 11, 2019 by Heidi McDonald