Cicada Treats
After some weeks of wondering where the cicadas were, I heard their distinctive buzz today. Just a little. A beginning of an onslaught or not? My friend Kevin came to visit us on Sunday, and we sat on the deck and ate grilled meat and other fine things. "If we were at my house," he said, "we couldn't sit outside like this. The cicadas are too loud."
We told Lilly that if there were cicadas around our back yard -- we hadn't heard any yet -- we could grill them too. Ah, a crunchy treat in a number of countries. She refused to entertain the idea.
posted by Dees Stribling @ 11:49 PM
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From the obituary of the entomologist Charles Lee Remington in the New York Times on June 17, 2007:
"Dr. Remington established the world’s first — and probably only —preserve for the Magicicada, a cicada that appears by the millions but only once every 17 years. When the cicadas last emerged in Connecticut in 1996, Dr. Remington took advantage of the windfall on the 90-acre preserve to carry out experiments both scientific and culinary.
'You know the slight sweetness that’s in good, young venison?' said Dr. Remington, who arranged a taste-testing of the cicadas both boiled and fried. 'Well, that’s what the 17-year cicada tastes like.'"
ANK
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