Cicadas are large winged insects that emerge in large quantities on the eastern United States every seventeen years. They are not grasshoppers or locusts, but they are in the same family of bugs.
In these troubling times, the end of days may be near and the seventeen-year cicadas may be a sign of the coming zombie apocalypse. The year 2021 may or may not bring the end of the pandemic, but it does bring the seventeen-year cicadas which has been dubbed Brood X. This means that after seventeen years underground, they are emerging in masse. There will be as many as 1.5 million cicadas per square acre.
The cicadas will damage crops and trees as they drill holes in young trees to lay their eggs. Therefore, our best defense against this invasion may be to eat the cicadas themselves as they will be plentiful.
If you have never considered eating cicadas, try the recipes in this book and you will see just how delicious and tasty they can be. Some can call these tasty critters the shrimp of the earth. Try to catch the cicadas as they are just emerging from the ground. This is when they will taste the best. At first the males are better to eat, but after mating, the females can be enjoyed as well as they are full of eggs.
This cookbook is full of delicious and tasty cicada recipes to help the survivalist, not only survive but to thrive through the zombie apocalypse.
