Cicadas don’t come around often. For Edible Chicago, we treated the 2024 emergence as more than a spectacle: a reason to reconsider what we eat and why. We reported, cooked and photographed our way through the history, nutrition and hesitations around eating insects.
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Read the story →Cicada Curious
Our feature on the 2024 cicada emergence, with a recipe for a Cook County boil.
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Will you start eating three square meals of cicadas? Probably not. But in these times of urgency and pessimism, there always exists a shimmer of hope: you can try.
— “Cicada Curious,” Edible Chicago
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