About BiJimini Spices

I’m Luke Craven the man behind BiJimini The Cajun spice made with crickets. I was born and brought up in Wiltshire and I still live in the house I was born! I love sport, I love travelling, I love dogs and I love food! After leaving school I really wanted to join the Royal Air Force with the notion of becoming a pilot. Yet events intervened and instead I became a private chef in Tignes in the French Alps and loved it. When that season ended, I made the decision to study and go to university and I chose the Royal Agricultural University based in Cirencester because it was local to me and I’d just got a puppy. This practical decision was one of the best I’ve ever made. I loved my time studying International Business, Food and Agri-business for my degree. While at university, I joined the enterprise society and this is when I first picked up on a slowly emerging worldwide trend for sustainability in food. I then came across crickets and became educated around their role in food already and their nutritional and environmental benefits. This ancient insect suddenly took on a whole new meaning for me. Read their story