Cicada cookbook draws attention to food insecurity

Jenna Jadin wrote a cookbook full of recipes that use cicadas, called "Cicada-licious: Cooking and Enjoying Periodical Cicadas."

Since the beginning of June, Brood X cicadas have delayed a White House press flight, been blamed for a car crash in Ohio and shown up on weather radar over Maryland. And the noisy insects' next trip could be to a dinner table near you. Prior to the last Brood X emergence in 2004, University of Maryland graduate student Jenna Jadin wrote a cookbook full of recipes that use cicadas, called "Cicada-licious: Cooking and Enjoying Periodical Cicadas." "I thought it was a great way to make these cicadas, which people seem to be afraid of, less scary," said Jadin. "Because when you can pluck something off the ground and eat it, it's a little bit less terrifying." The cookbook, which is available online, includes a variety of recipes ranging from Cicada Dumplings, to "El Chirper" Tacos, to "Chocolate Chip Trillers."