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Show Locust Eaallr Digested. The people of Zanzibar should stand high for 'the comprehensive character of their cuisine. Among other delicacies are small monkey and fruit eating bats. Locusts are relished by the Bedouin of Mesopotamia and some other eastern tribes. They are placed on strings and eaten on journey with bitter and unleavened un-leavened bread. The Hebrews, w'" were prohibited eating many kinds food which our larger experience teaches us are palatable and wholesome, a well as some that we do not venture to touch, were permitted to have their fill of locusts. lo-custs. The locust is an article of diet to thl day, but only of the very poor; it i thrown into boiling water and eav with salt. To live on locusts and wild honey conveys a more accurate picture of extreme poverty and frugality to traveler in the east than to any one else. Locusts, however, are not always cooked, sometimes they are eaten fresh. They are said to have a strong vegetable taste, the flavor largely depending, as might be expected, on the plants on which they have been feeding. Dr. Livingstone, Living-stone, who showed his common sense by not being fastidious, considered them palatable when roasted. Scottish Re view. |