Cicadas--The Other White Meat

[Tonio]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16047-2004Apr15.html

None in Southern Maryland this year, but...

Cicada-eating has a long history on this continent. The original inhabitants ate them...

At Fahrenheit, a restaurant in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Georgetown, cicadas almost made the menu this year. "The soft-shelled cicada, it's done just like a soft-shelled crab," says executive chef Frank Belosic...

"Higher-ups," Belosic adds, crushed the idea, in order not "to scare people away."

 

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[SuperGrover]

cicada recipes

http://www.urhome.umd.edu/newsdesk/pdf/cicada recipes.pdf

 

[Tonio]

Re: cicada recipes

Originally posted by SuperGrover
http://www.urhome.umd.edu/newsdesk/pdf/cicada recipes.pdf

The one that gets me is "Chocolate-Covered Cicadas." Give that one to your wife for Valentine's Day and you'll be sleeping in the garage.