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["Bill Russell" <shaman@pennswoods.net>]

Check this out:

http://www.chiprowe.com/magrev/insects.html

Bill


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "longdistshtr" <longdistshtr@shtc.net>
To: "NAFEX" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 8:20 AM
Subject: [NAFEX] Cicadas, eating thereof


> As Jerry Lehman mentioned in his American Persimmon Interest Group Article
> (Pomona, Spring '04) some Native American diet items have gone
unappreciated
> over the years. However uninformed this information may seem, there is an
> element of fact in it.
> Being that this is a target year for the emergence of tenerals from all
> those grubs which have been gnawing our delicate feeder roots for almost
two
> decades, there is a chance for revenge and also to revive a favored fare
of
> this Land's former inhabitants.
> They are surprisingly delicious and in some parts of the Country there
will
> be plenty of them to sample if you are so inclined.  Try 'em. You'll
> probably like 'em.  The females are best. The listed site has several
> recipes.  I'd advise one to stay away from the saturated fat in the
> chocolate covered ones. Leave a few to serenade me with their "July Fly
> Overture" on a hot summer afternoon while I sip my Mint Julep.
>
> http://www.urhome.umd.edu/newsdesk/pdf/cicada%20recipes.PDF
>
> Doc Lisenby
> Zone 7/8 (SC-whar we don't know nothin' 'bout no 'simmon puddin' but the
> 'possums are good 'n fat)
>
>
>
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