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Recipe: Cicada Cardamom Cake
A Rhode Island publication has shared a recipe for a cicada cardamom cake, offering cooks a way to use periodical cicadas as an ingredient. The recipe arrives as the insects emerge in large numbers, prompting renewed interest in entomophagy, or insect eating. Food writers and home cooks are debating whether the bugs belong in desserts, with supporters calling them a sustainable, protein-rich ingredient.
Why now: The periodical cicada emergence has renewed interest in recipes that use the insects as food.
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- Recipe: Cicada Cardamom Cake · providenceonline.com
- Recipe: Cicada Cardamom Cake · providenceonline.com
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