Your future meal might be grasshoppers

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🗓️ 23 November 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Eating grasshoppers is suddenly a trend. In Mexico, it's a tradition that dates back centuries. We go visit grasshopper hunters who make a living off of it

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0:00.0	In Mexico's Pueblazcala Valley, a group of grasshopper hunters is walking through an open field with big, two-handled nets in hand.
0:09.0	And you can explain a little, what is the technique?
0:13.0	Well, yeah, yeah, I'm just, you know, it a sound of a crunchy.
0:29.6	What you're hearing is a sound of a crunchy, salty snack.
0:32.6	You'll get it on one side, okay?
0:35.6	Just you like, like, I'm like one other side. Yeah.
0:38.3	Okay.
0:39.3	Grasshopper hunting has been going on in Mexico for thousands of years, but only recently
0:56.6	has eating them gained widespread acceptance.
1:01.1	Today, consumption of the jumpy little protein-packed insects is booming, and more and
1:05.7	more restaurants are putting them on the menu, and not just in Mexico.
1:17.9	I'm Gustavariano. You're listening to the Times, essential news from the LA Times.
1:25.7	It's Wednesday, November 23rd, 2022. Today, before Turkey, Chapulines, the world of harvesting and eating grasshoppers in Mexico.
1:31.0	Layla Miller is a foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times based in Mexico City.
1:35.3	Leila, welcome the Times.
1:36.8	Thanks so much, Gustavo.
1:38.5	So grasshopper hunting.
1:40.2	Where'd you go?
1:40.9	What'd you see?
1:41.5	How's the sound?
1:42.9	So I went to Mexico's Puebla-Clal Valley, which is about two hours away by car from Mexico City.
1:54.3	The idea was to follow grasshopper hunters as they were going out at night a couple hours before sunrise, because that's when
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