Bon appetit! DC chef cooks cicada sushi after billion-bug invasion
By AFP
30 May 2021 |
9:48 am
A leader in the sustainable food movement, chef Bun Lai cooks cicadas to open up conversations about food alternatives that cause less environmental destruction than traditional farming. In the Washington, DC area, billions of cicada nymphs that have been living underground since 2004 have started bursting out of the soil - a rare and remarkable invasion.
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A leader in the sustainable food movement, chef Bun Lai cooks cicadas to open up conversations about food alternatives that cause less environmental destruction than traditional farming. In the Washington, DC area, billions of cicada nymphs that have been living underground since 2004 have started bursting out of the soil - a rare and remarkable invasion.
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