Don Day: Escamoles? Aren’t they the eggs of…?

Published March 13, 2022

Lent. For some it means one meal a day. For others it means no meat all day. For me it means something with four times more protein than a lot of meat. For me, it’s the start of escamol season.

Escamoles. The first mention of them was early in the 16th Century, when Fray Bernadino Sanagún noted their existence in his General History of the Things in New Spain. They were not the only unusual dish he wrote about. The monk documented 96 edible insects in his writings about Mexico. Yes, escamoles are insects. Yes, they’re edible. Yes, I eat them. And yes, so does the much more persnickety eater known as Don Day’s Wife.

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