Escamol

Escamoles cooked in butter

Escamoles in garlic sauce

Escamoles [ eska'moles ] (nahuatl: azcamolli, from azcatl (ant) and molli (stew)) are larvae and pupae of ants of the species Liometopum apiculatum and L. occidentale var. Luctuosum used as food insects .

They are harvested from the roots of the agave species Agave tequilana (grown for tequila ) and Agave americana (grown for Maguey- Mezcal ) in Mexico . Escamoles taste like butter or nutty, and have the consistency of cottage cheese.

Escamoles are popular as a food in and around Mexico City . They were already used as food by the Aztecs in Mexico .

Individual evidence

^ Reyes Castillo, Pedro and Enrique Montes de Oca. Fauna . In Enrique Florescano (ed.): El patrimonio nacional de Mexico ( Spanish ), Volume I. Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, 1997, ISBN 978-968-16-5452-8 , pp. 179-180.
^ Émile Bergier: Peuples entomophages et insectes comestibles: Étude sur les moeurs de l'homme et de l'insecte ( French ). N. Boubée, 1953, p. 152.
↑ DeFoliart, Gene R .: Insects as food . In Vincent H. Resh, Ring T. Cardé (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Insects ( English ). Academic Press , 2009, ISBN 978-0-08-092090-0 , p. 381.
↑ Top 5 Disgusting Delicacies (English) , ABC News . May 4, 2010. Retrieved August 19, 2014.
↑ Gaso, MI et al .: Biological monitoring of radioactivity and metal pollution in edible eggs of Liometopum apiculatum (ants) from a radioactive waste site in central Mexico . In Peter Warwick (Ed.): Environmental Radiochemical Analysis II ( English ). Royal Society of Chemistry , 2003, ISBN 978-0-85404-618-8 , pp. 334-335.
^ Anthony DePalma: Here: A Biography of the New American Continent ( English ). PublicAffairs , 2001, ISBN 978-1-891620-83-6 , p. 268.
↑ Ramos-Elorduy, Julieta and José Manuel Pino Moreno: El consumo de insectos entre los aztecas . In Janet Long (ed.): Conquista y comida: consecuencias del encuentro de dos mundos ( Spanish ). Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México , 2003, ISBN 978-970-32-0852-4 , pp. 89-90, 94.

Web links

Club 700 Hoy Video about the harvest of Escamoles onYouTube(Spanish)
Julieta Ramos-Elorduy: Creepy Crawly Cuisine: The Gourmet Guide to Edible Insects ( English ). Inner Traditions - Bear & Company, 1998, ISBN 978-0-89281-747-4 , pp. 105-110. Recipes for Escamoles

[1] Reyes Castillo, Pedro and Enrique Montes de Oca. Fauna . In Enrique Florescano (ed.): El patrimonio nacional de Mexico ( Spanish ), Volume I. Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, 1997, ISBN 978-968-16-5452-8 , pp. 179-180.

[2] Émile Bergier: Peuples entomophages et insectes comestibles: Étude sur les moeurs de l'homme et de l'insecte ( French ). N. Boubée, 1953, p. 152.

[defoliart-3] DeFoliart, Gene R .: Insects as food . In Vincent H. Resh, Ring T. Cardé (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Insects ( English ). Academic Press , 2009, ISBN 978-0-08-092090-0 , p. 381.

[4] Top 5 Disgusting Delicacies (English) , ABC News . May 4, 2010. Retrieved August 19, 2014.

[rad-5] Gaso, MI et al .: Biological monitoring of radioactivity and metal pollution in edible eggs of Liometopum apiculatum (ants) from a radioactive waste site in central Mexico . In Peter Warwick (Ed.): Environmental Radiochemical Analysis II ( English ). Royal Society of Chemistry , 2003, ISBN 978-0-85404-618-8 , pp. 334-335.

[6] Anthony DePalma: Here: A Biography of the New American Continent ( English ). PublicAffairs , 2001, ISBN 978-1-891620-83-6 , p. 268.

[aztec-7] Ramos-Elorduy, Julieta and José Manuel Pino Moreno: El consumo de insectos entre los aztecas . In Janet Long (ed.): Conquista y comida: consecuencias del encuentro de dos mundos ( Spanish ). Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México , 2003, ISBN 978-970-32-0852-4 , pp. 89-90, 94.