Chris Connolly Photography

Field Grasshopper

Grasshoppers provide an important source of protein to people in many parts of the world. From what I've heard, grasshoppers are delicious. People have eaten locusts and grasshoppers for centuries. It is recorded in the Bible that John the Baptist ate locusts and wild honey while he was living in the wilderness. In many areas of Africa, Asia, and the Americas, locusts and grasshoppers are a regular ingredient of the local diet. Chapulines, or grasshoppers, are delicious when wrapped in a corn tortilla and drenched in chile sauce, or on their own as a quick snack. They are very popular in Oaxaca, Mexico where they are consumed on a daily basis. Chapulines are very high in protein yet very low in fat and have a wonderful crunchy texture when cooked properly. Grasshoppers are served on skewers in some Chinese food markets. Fried grasshoppers (Walang Goreng) are eaten in Java and Indonesia. In the Arab world, they are boiled, salted, sun-dried, and eaten as snacks. In Native America, the Ohlone people burned grassland to herd grasshoppers into pits where they could be collected as food. However, it will be difficult for ‘entomophagy’ (the fancy name for eating insects) to catch on in the Western world where the practice is unsurprisingly viewed with disgust. It will be quite some time before Gordon Ramsey and Jamie Oliver start to make grasshopper pizza or dung beetle lasagna

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Grasshoppers provide an important source of protein to people in many parts of the world. From what I've heard, grasshoppers are delicious. People have eaten locusts and grasshoppers for centuries. It is recorded in the Bible that John the Baptist ate locusts and wild honey while he was living in the wilderness. In many areas of Africa, Asia, and the Americas, locusts and grasshoppers are a regular ingredient of the local diet. Chapulines, or grasshoppers, are delicious when wrapped in a corn tortilla and drenched in chile sauce, or on their own as a quick snack. They are very popular in Oaxaca, Mexico where they are consumed on a daily basis. Chapulines are very high in protein yet very low in fat and have a wonderful crunchy texture when cooked properly. Grasshoppers are served on skewers in some Chinese food markets. Fried grasshoppers (Walang Goreng) are eaten in Java and Indonesia. In the Arab world, they are boiled, salted, sun-dried, and eaten as snacks. In Native America, the Ohlone people burned grassland to herd grasshoppers into pits where they could be collected as food. However, it will be difficult for ‘entomophagy’ (the fancy name for eating insects) to catch on in the Western world where the practice is unsurprisingly viewed with disgust. It will be quite some time before Gordon Ramsey and Jamie Oliver start to make grasshopper pizza or dung beetle lasagna