The migratory grasshoppers in northern Africa .are gathered.in large nurd-' bers by the Moors, who cook and eat them. They are fried; in oil of butter, or reduced to powder and mixed with milk, suet, or. flour/ Similar insects, the locusts and cicadas, have;' been used for food -for; centuries :by, the inhabitants, of. the desert regions, of ■ Persia, Arabia, and northern Africa.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 55, 6 March 1937, Page 11
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