when in doubt, just use your fingers.......in 1900, Edith Wharton would have had the 'proper silver implement' to transport this roasted cicada over a almond butter and honey-topped Golgappa puri, filled with lemon custard, to one's 'perhaps, not that eager' palate.....
The natural diet of chicken, America's most popular animal protein 'product', consists of flies, larvae, worms, decaying corpses and ants, and wild-caught trout gets its protein from insects".. That's often why fish leap out of the water.....In the not too future, our burgeoning human populations, having devoured 90% of the World's 'classier' animals, will have to resort to eating lower forms of life.....much, much lower.......like processed fleas, worms, maggots and larvae.....you get the picture........As much as I like 'gourmet' cooking and 'fine' dining....I have no problem that this scenario........After all.....it seems more humane to spare baby goats and beef 'veal' from our industrial carnivorousness.......make way for companies like Protix Biosystems and Agriprotein to supplant Industrial Muscle Meat Production......Anyone for fried tofu with insect larvae?
Watching an episode of Andrew Zimmern's BIZARRE FOODS.....I was inspired to 'think outside the box' of my culinary habituations......so much of the World....eats bugs, worms, and all sorts of 'slimy-creepy-crawling-slithering' things.....We Americans and Europeans.....not so much.......Is a dissicated mealworm or roasted cricket/grasshopper/ant so much more loathsome than the Epicurean 'delicacy', escargot? Or 'fried chicken livers' .....or gelatinized pig's ears and hoofs, or chocolate-covered black ants? Curious, seeing bags of meal worms in the 'wildbird treats' section of the Pet Foods Dept. at Kroger......I picked up a big bag of worms.....to be baked into muffins and served with jams and fruit butters........upping the protein content of these 'baked-in-paper' breakfast carbohydrates.......crispy crickets are on their way to the waffle iron, tomorrow...with some super-saturated honey bee regurgitation and some creamy cow's udder secretion......Yum, Yum.....eat 'em up!
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