Cicadas: If you can't beat 'em, eat 'em
Jackson Landers stands over his stove. Spatula in hand, flanked by his two eager children, he stirs the contents of the saucepan thoughtfully. “It’s olive oil and Old Bay,” Landers says. “I was going for a traditional blue crab kind of feel.” Crabs, however, aren’t on the menu. Researchers’ fascination, fruit growers’ nightmare, and naturalists’ phenomenon, cicadas are now, apparently, dinner.
June 6th, 2013 issue #1223
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