Message de liona posté le 2004-07-09 16:47:22 (S | E | F | I)
I found an interesting text in Today in English (July-August 2004) which speaks about a particular food. I hope this document will interest you. Good reading!!!

What’s cooking?

The other coast
"Smells like barbequed steak. No, chicken. Spareribs?
Salmon. Hey Toulose, What's cooking?” “Bugs.” (If you want text’s translation, ask me)

2004 is a good year for insects, in America at least. In May, the east of the USA was infested with cicadas, which live underground for 17 years (yes, 17 years), then emerge like a sort of biblical plague (fléau). In Washington DC, millions of the large insects covered threes and walls, with each male insect making a noise as loud as a car engine. Residents were, of course, horrified...all except for one man. A French resident of Washington, interviewed by Britain's BBC radio, told a reporter that he eats the cicadas. He said, "I cook them like I cook
them like I cook my escargots, with butter and herbs". Cicadas have, he says, a "nutty flavour" (goût de noisette). Well, the good news for him, and the bad news for his neighbours, is that the cicadas will be back in 17 years. In the summer of 2021, the eastern USA will apparently be a great place for fans of grilled cicadas to have a barbecue…

Questions

Do you think the cicadas will become our future food?
What advantages do you find to eat any cicadas?
In your opinion, what will we eat in 2021?