<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f9e9935d-b906-429f-850e-56b0249d7729/3E234FAC-EC3A-4223-8E8C-A53A205E7156/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/05/14/food.festivals/index.html?iref=t2test_travelthur&eref=rss_topstories" href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/05/14/food.festivals/index.html?iref=t2test_travelthur&eref=rss_topstories" style="font-size: 11px;">www.cnn.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/05/14/food.festivals/index.html?iref=t2test_travelthur&eref=rss_topstories"> <A target="new" href="http://gilroygarlicfestival.com/">Gilroy Garlic Festival</A> in Gilroy, California, "the garlic capital of the world."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/05/14/food.festivals/index.html?iref=t2test_travelthur&eref=rss_topstories">garlic-infused fare like scampi and stuffed mushrooms, to more exotic choices. Garlic ice cream</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/05/14/food.festivals/index.html?iref=t2test_travelthur&eref=rss_topstories">BugFest</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/05/14/food.festivals/index.html?iref=t2test_travelthur&eref=rss_topstories">served up by Café Insecta at the <A target="new" href="http://www.naturalsciences.org/">North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences</A> in Raleigh each September.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/05/14/food.festivals/index.html?iref=t2test_travelthur&eref=rss_topstories"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.cnn.com/img/71880E17-2550-4660-AF44-51ABED09CDA9" alt="Unusual food festivals include BugFest in Raleigh, North Carolina, where a young visitor tries a stir-fried scorpion." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/05/14/food.festivals/index.html?iref=t2test_travelthur&eref=rss_topstories"><P>Unusual food festivals include BugFest in Raleigh, North Carolina, where a young visitor tries a stir-fried scorpion.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/05/14/food.festivals/index.html?iref=t2test_travelthur&eref=rss_topstories">Ant-Chilada, a cheese enchilada in which toasted freeze-dried ants are used as both the filling and topping, and Hush-Grubbies, in which wax worm grubs are coated with hush-puppy batter and deep fried.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/05/14/food.festivals/index.html?iref=t2test_travelthur&eref=rss_topstories">Chocolate-Chirp Cookies, which have crickets baked in</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/05/14/food.festivals/index.html?iref=t2test_travelthur&eref=rss_topstories">"We basically use recipes that we would use for any other dish and substitute the protein,"</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/05/14/food.festivals/index.html?iref=t2test_travelthur&eref=rss_topstories">recommended the Hush-Grubbies, calling the bugs inside "tasty" and "a little buttery." Stir-fried scorpions, on the other hand, can be a little bitter</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/05/14/food.festivals/index.html?iref=t2test_travelthur&eref=rss_topstories"><P class="cnnInline"> Some people's strategy is just to eat around the bugs, Busch said. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3E234FAC-EC3A-4223-8E8C-A53A205E7156/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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