Show Locusts Are Regarded as Delicacy by Some People Some species of the locust are eaten in Eastern countries and are even esteemed a delicacy when w hen h e n properly cooked After tearing off the legs and wings and taking out the entrails they are stuck in long rows upon wooden spits roasted at atthe atthe atthe the fire and devoured with great zest Other ways of preparing them are dressing them in oil and dry dry- drying drying ing them and pulverizing them and when other food is scarce making malting bread of the meal The Bedouins pack them with salt in close masses which they carry in their leathern sacks From these they cut slices as they need them When the Arabs have them in quantities they roast or dry them in inan an oven or boil them and eat them with salt The Arabs in Morocco boil the locusts which are collected in great quantities when they are easily caught After Alter having roast roast- roasted roasted roasted ed them a little upon the iron place on which bread is baked they are dried in the sun and then put pit into large sacks with a mixture of salt I They arc are not served up as a dish but everyone takes tales a handful when hungry The food of John the Bap Bap- Baptist Baptist Baptist consisted of such dried locusts I |