Waiter, there s soup in my cicada! Photograph via Shutterstock.
Step aside, ramps and rhubarb: this spring’s buzziest ingredient is the cicada. The Brood X insects are starting to emerge, and chefs are freaking out one even closed his Michelin-starred restaurant “for cicada season.” But for the most part, cooks are excited for an Iron Chef-style bug challenge.
Cicadas have landed on the menu of Leesburg restaurant Cocina on Market, which is serving locally-sourced cicada tacos. Before chef de cuisine Tobias Padovano began sautéing members of Brood X, he was cooking grasshoppers for traditional Mexican
c
hapulines tacos. So why not go local with a high-protein, sustainable ingredient? Reading up on cooking with cicadas, Padovano learned the bugs taste like shrimp a take he confirms through his own sampling, describing the flavor profile as “umami grass-like.”
Fallout 76 players made their own post-apocalyptic Iron Chef
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Fallout 76 is host to tons of wild player-run events, like the wasteland’s first official cooking competition. The Clawed Cooking Challenge is a fun concept that’s equally domestic and post-apocalyptic. Think
Iron Chef or
Chopped, except in the middle of the episode you have to watch the contestant wrestle a radioactive bear or sneak through a dangerous swamp.
The gameplay of
Fallout 76 allows players to either eat pre-made items they scrounge off store shelves, or they can collect recipes and cook their own fare. Some recipes are much rarer, and harder to make than others.
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – Sam The Cooking Guy is hosting the 30th annual Mama’s Day on Friday, May 7, 2021.
Mama’s Kitchen is proud to commemorate its 30th Mama’s Day to bring the community together for an evening of great food, fun and friendship.
This year, the event is virtual, but the link (mamaskitchen.org) is open to anyone to join and watch.
During the event, Sam and Mama’s Kitchen Executive Chef, Jason Martin, will participate in a cook-off! Mama’s Kitchen’s social media followers have voted on a mystery ingredient item for Sam and Jason to use during the cook-off for a very Iron Chef-style competition.