(19 Apr 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
New Orleans – 17 April 2024
1. Various of Zack Lemann putting on chef jacket, eating cicada nymps
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Zack Lemann, Curator of Animal Collections, Audubon Insectarium:
"Every culture has things that they love to eat and maybe things that are taboo or things that people just sort of wrinkle their nose and frown their brow at. And there’s no reason to do that with insects."
3. Various of Lemann cooking cicada nymphs
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Zack Lemann, Curator of Animal Collections, Audubon Insectarium:
"Well my hope is that we will either acquire ourselves or get some periodical cicadas, the ones that are coming out by the tens of millions in the coming weeks so that we can serve them as a specialty item here, but we are still working on that."
5. Tight of cicadas nymphs being fried
6. Lemann serves plate of cicada nymph
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Zack Lemann, Curator of Animal Collections, Audubon Insectarium:
"Cicadas aren’t usually on the menu because most of the world’s cicadas don’t take thirteen or seventeen years to develop like these and emerge by the millions. They are here and there."
8. Various of Lemann seasoning cicadas
9. Oven dings, Lemann opens oven
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Zack Lemann, Curator of Animal Collections, Audubon Insectarium:
"So we do different dishes that are savory, that are sweet and I like to tell people if it’s coming from a New Orleans kitchen, even if it’s bizarre, it’s going to be tasty."
11. Various of cicadas on plate and in salad
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Zack Lemann, Curator of Animal Collections, Audubon Insectarium:
"And I have a great interest in getting people to appreciate insects in a very broad sense and whether that’s going out in nature and observing them, conserving rare species, keeping them as pets or anything in between, being inspired as an artist."
13. Various of kids in line to eat insects
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Zack Lemann, Curator of Animal Collections, Audubon Insectarium:
"When you come to Audubon Insectarium you’ll get to see 50 live animal exhibits. We have a beautiful butterfly garden with hundreds of flying butterflies overlooking the river and if you have an adventurous palette you can sample some bugs."
15. Wide of Butterfly garden
16. Wide of bug appetit kitchen
STORYLINE:
They may look like little monsters. And the seemingly endless racket they make may be a nuisance.
But as parts of the nation prepare for the emergence of trillions of noisy cicadas, bug experts say the little creatures can also be a tasty snack.
The University of Maryland, for instance, put out a cicada cookbook in 2004.
And, now, the Audubon Insectarium in New Orleans plans to demonstrate ways to cook cicadas at the little in-house snack bar where it already serves dishes such as Southwest Waxworms with chili powder and Crispy Cajun Crickets.
AP Video shot by Stephen Smith
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