{"id":258246,"date":"2021-05-25T10:38:24","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T07:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/cicada-sushi-anyone-us-chef-serves-up-sustainable-brood-x-delicacy\/"},"modified":"2021-05-25T10:38:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T07:38:24","slug":"cicada-sushi-anyone-us-chef-serves-up-sustainable-brood-x-delicacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cicada-sushi-anyone-us-chef-serves-up-sustainable-brood-x-delicacy\/","title":{"rendered":"#Cicada sushi, anyone? US chef serves up sustainable ‘Brood X’ delicacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Cicada sushi, anyone? US chef serves up sustainable ‘Brood X’ delicacy<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n Chef Bun Lai seasons cicadas with salt as he fries them at Fort Totten Park in Washington.
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After 17 years underground, swarms of cicadas are emerging across the eastern United States\u2014and for one Washington chef, the rare bug invasion was his cue for a cookout, with a side of food ethics.<\/p>\n


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Bun Lai, an advocate for the sustainable food movement, invited locals for an insect hunt in a city park followed by a taste of his fried cicada sushi.<\/p>\n

“In a world where we’re suffering from the biggest pandemic in history\u2014which is not COVID, but diet-related diseases\u2014we’re going to have to take a revolutionary app<\/a>roach to how we’re used to eating,” he said.<\/p>\n

Over the weekend, the Hong Kong-born American chef showed residents how to harvest, cook and prepare cicadas as a way to talk about alternative methods of farming and eating.<\/p>\n

Billions of “Brood X” cicadas are appearing in US states including Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Indiana and Tennessee.<\/p>\n

Using his Instagram and Twitter<\/a> accounts, Bun announced when he would be catching and cooking a few\u2014and then sharing them free of charge. <\/p>\n

“Free cicada hunt and cookout,” Bun tweeted. “Bring ingredients to cook with and join me in getting creative or just eat!”<\/p>\n

For those who answered the call, the culinary adventure began by collecting some of the tastiest-looking bugs. <\/p>\n

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\n People collect “Brood X” cicadas and invasive edible plants to cook with.
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Stella Roque, a 36-year-old who grew up with a fear of insects, was not overly eager, but she viewed it as a way to overcome her phobia.<\/p>\n

“I’m here today because Bun Lai invited me to try cooked cicadas, and I thought it was going to be an interesting experience,” she said.<\/p>\n

“I decided to come along, given that I had heard about the whole cicada apocalypse happening in the area.”<\/p>\n

And she’s not alone in trying some creepy-crawly cuisine. Cicada tacos are popular menu items in restaurants just now, according to The Washingtonian magazine.<\/p>\n

However, Bun cautioned against cicadas becoming a “gourmet food,” fearing they could even be “eaten away like we have with so many species that we’ve become obsessed with over time.”<\/p>\n

The group collected cicadas and edible greens from around the park under Bun’s guidance. The cicadas were then placed in a jar near other fresh ingredients beside a charcoal fire.<\/p>\n