4.8 • 9.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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This week, Cal talks about some culinary (and possibly hallucinatory) party snacks made from the overabundance of cicadas, saying goodbye to a hunting mentor, and bison meat in the Arizona heat.
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0:00.0 | From mediators' world news headquarters in Boseman, Montana, this is Cal's We Can Review |
0:08.1 | presented by Steel. |
0:10.3 | Steel products are available only at authorized dealers. |
0:13.2 | For more, go to StealDealers.com. |
0:16.5 | Now here's your host, Ryan Calcalaan. |
0:22.3 | Brude X, the largest and whitest spread of North American cicada breads, which burrows |
0:28.8 | up from the ground every 17 years across the eastern part of the country and makes everyone |
0:33.8 | pull the pillow over their head at night is here. |
0:37.5 | The emergence is now in full swing, but y'all out there from Georgia through Illinois and |
0:42.8 | New Jersey probably don't need a reminder. |
0:45.9 | However, now is the time to turn lemons into lemonade, or in this case, annoying, clicking |
0:52.0 | nuisances into the shrimp of the land. |
0:56.0 | That's right, this is a show about enjoying nature's bounty, and if we get excited about |
1:01.2 | pulling crayfish out of the brook or shrimp out of the ocean, we can also get excited |
1:05.6 | about gathering and cooking up cicadas. |
1:08.5 | Anatomically speaking, the three are kissing cousins, all just different kinds of arthropods |
1:14.6 | and among arthropods, cicadas are particularly good eating, known as the truffles of the |
1:20.4 | insect world. |
1:22.0 | So first things first, as with almost all game, you have to get up early to harvest cicadas. |
1:29.4 | You want to get them in their tenoralfaise, which means the period after shedding their |
1:33.9 | nymph casing but before the air and sun have hardened their wings and exoskeletons. |
1:39.6 | The ones you want to grab should look white or light green. |
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