Apparently Eating Cicadas Will Make You Cool This Summer

How cool are you looking to be this summer? Do you own a yacht? Beach house? Lakehouse with multiple ski boats cranking Kid Rock's classic "All Summer Long" all summer long while scooting across the lake? Do you own a Bret Michaels straw hat & drive a Jeep? Those are all things that will make you cool this summer, but there's a gamechanger out there that will be all the rage at the cocktail parties.

You'll know for sure you're cool this summer if you partake in a dinner consisting of cicadas. With a "total invasion" of the bugs awakening from 17-year and 13-year naps, these rascals will be everywhere and cool people will be eating them.

The New York Times is already reporting on cool chefs who plan to use the cicadas to separate cool people from their money.

"On a recent Monday at the farm, Mr. Lai had strung a bunch of cicadas like a popcorn garland to gently smoke over a fire, a technique he learned from Congolese cuisine. These cicadas would go in salad — he compared them to bacon bits," according to Times food writer Priya Krishna.

"In another bowl, there was mame gohan, a Japanese rice dish with peas, where Mr. Lai had substituted peas for cicadas to imbue a nutty flavor during steaming. He rolled the rice into boiled leaves of swamp rhubarb and cut them into maki that were pleasantly bitter.

Grilled adult and teneral cicadas are available for sampling during Cicadafest at Dr. Jim Duke's Green Farmacy Garden on May 22, 2021 in Crofton, Maryland. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

"He poured a deeply savory broth of kelp and oyster mushrooms over a small bowl of raw cicadas, adding a spoonful of red miso to make a cicada miso soup. Finally, he shaped sushi rice into a pizza and showered it with mozzarella and Parmesan. Just before it was done baking, he covered the top with cicadas, which provided a pepperoni-like crunch."

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