Editing Grasshopper (section)

===As food===
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[[File:Fried grasshoper.jpg|thumb|Fried grasshoppers from Gunung Kidul, [[Yogyakarta Special Region|Yogyakarta]], Indonesia]]
[[File:Inago no tsukudani 02.jpg|thumb| Sweet-and-salty grasshoppers dish in Japan (''[[Inago no Tsukudani]]'')]]

In some countries, grasshoppers are used as food.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Aman |first1=Paul |last2=Frederich |first2=Michel |last3=Uyttenbroeck |first3=Roel |last4=Hatt |first4=Séverin |last5=Malik |first5=Priyanka |last6=Lebecque |first6=Simon |last7=Hamaidia |first7=Malik |last8=Miazek |first8=Krystian |last9=Goffin |first9=Dorothée |last10=Willems |first10=Luc |last11=Deleu |first11=Magali |last12=Fauconnier |first12=Marie-Laure |last13=Richel |first13=Aurore |last14=De Pauw |first14=Edwin |last15=Blecker |first15=Christophe |last16=Arnaud |first16=Monty |last17=Francis |first17=Frédéric |last18=Haubruge |first18=Eric |last19=Danthine |first19=Sabine |year=2016 |title=Grasshoppers as a food source? A review |journal=Biotechnologie, Agronomie, Société et Environnement |volume=20 |pages=337–352 |issn=1370-6233 |url=http://popups.ulg.ac.be/1780-4507/index.php?id=12974 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160531110646/http://popups.ulg.ac.be/1780-4507/index.php?id=12974 |archive-date=31 May 2016 }}</ref> In southern [[Mexico]], grasshoppers, known as ''[[chapulines]]'', are eaten in a variety of dishes, such as in [[tortilla]]s with chilli sauce.<ref name=Kennedy>{{cite book |author=Kennedy, Diana |title=Oaxaca al Gusto: An Infinite Gastronomy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9j3iBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT754 |year=2011 |publisher=University of Texas Press |isbn=978-0-292-77389-9 |page=754 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171127023308/https://books.google.com/books?id=9j3iBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT754 |archive-date=27 November 2017 }}</ref> Grasshoppers are served on skewers in some Chinese food markets, like the [[Donghuamen Night Market]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Dōnghuámén Night Market |url=http://www.lonelyplanet.com/china/beijing/restaurants/street-food-hawkers/donghuamen-night-market |publisher=Lonely Planet |access-date=5 May 2015 |quote=the bustling night market near Wangfujing Dajie is a veritable food zoo: lamb, beef and chicken skewers, corn on the cob, smelly dòufu (tofu), cicadas, grasshoppers, kidneys, quail eggs, snake, squid |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150311091450/http://www.lonelyplanet.com/china/beijing/restaurants/street-food-hawkers/donghuamen-night-market |archive-date=11 March 2015 }}</ref> Fried grasshoppers (''walang goreng'') are eaten in the [[Gunung Kidul Regency]], [[Special Region of Yogyakarta|Yogyakarta]], [[Java]] in Indonesia.<ref>{{cite web |title=Walang Goreng Khas Gunung Kidul |url=http://umkmjogja.com/product/walang-goreng-khas-gunung-kidul|publisher=UMKM Jogja|access-date=30 March 2015 |language=id|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306121955/https://umkmjogja.com/product/walang-goreng-khas-gunung-kidul |archive-date=6 March 2016}}</ref><!--In the Arab world, grasshoppers are boiled, salted, and sun-dried, and eaten as snacks.<ref>{{cite journal |last=King |first=Bes Sie |date=23 December 2009 |title=Snack on grasshoppers |url=http://archives.jrn.columbia.edu/2009/nyfoodchain.com/2009/12/23/snack-on-grasshoppers/ |journal=NY Food Chain |location=New York |publisher=Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism |access-date=24 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150224191253/http://archives.jrn.columbia.edu/2009/nyfoodchain.com/2009/12/23/snack-on-grasshoppers/ |archive-date=24 February 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>--> Grasshoppers are a beloved delicacy in Uganda; they are usually eaten fried (most commonly in November and May after the rains).<ref>{{Cite news|date=2018-12-02|title=The Ugandan love of grasshoppers - and how to harvest them|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-46357020|access-date=2021-11-27}}</ref> In America, the [[Ohlone]] burned grassland to herd grasshoppers into pits where they could be collected as food.<ref name="Margolin">{{cite book |last1=Margolin |first1=Malcolm |last2=Harney |first2=Michael (illus.) |title=The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco–Monterey Bay Area |date=October 2012 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MjX3oUTYKnAC&pg=PT54 |publisher=Heyday |isbn=978-1-59714-219-9 |page=54 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171127023307/https://books.google.com/books?id=MjX3oUTYKnAC&pg=PT54 |archive-date=27 November 2017 }}</ref>

<!--[[File:Skewered locusts.jpg|thumb|upright|Skewered locusts in [[Beijing]], China]]-->
It is recorded in the Bible that [[John the Baptist]] ate locusts and wild honey (Greek: ἀκρίδες καὶ μέλι ἄγριον, ''akrídes kaì méli ágrion'') while living in the wilderness.<ref>{{Bibleverse|Mark|1:6|ASV}}; {{Bibleverse|Matthew|3:4|ASV}}</ref> However, because of a tradition of depicting him as an [[asceticism|ascetic]], attempts have been made to explain that the ''locusts'' were in fact a suitably ascetic [[vegetarian]] food such as [[carob]] beans, notwithstanding the fact that the word ''ἀκρίδες'' means plainly ''grasshoppers''.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Brock |first1=Sebastian |title=St John the Baptist's diet – according to some early Eastern Christian sources |url=https://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/3763/John-the-Baptists-Diet.pdf.download |publisher=St John's College, Oxford |access-date=4 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924102311/http://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/3763/John-the-Baptists-Diet.pdf.download |archive-date=24 September 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Kelhoffer |first1=James A. |title=Did John the Baptist Eat Like a Former Essene? Locust-Eating in the Ancient Near East and at Qumran |journal=Dead Sea Discoveries |date=2004 |volume=11 |issue=3 |pages=293–314 |jstor=4193332 |quote=There is no reason, however, to question the plausibility of Mark 1:6c, that John regularly ate these foods while in the wilderness. |doi=10.1163/1568517042643756|url=http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-141403 }}</ref>

In recent years, with the search for alternative healthy and sustainable protein sources, grasshoppers are being cultivated by commercial companies operating grasshopper farms and are being used as food and protein supplements.