lead poisoning
Zapotec Grasshoppers and Deadly Poison
In the town of Zimatlán, 15 miles south of Oaxaca City, the Zapotec people savor their favorite snack food—a deep fried mixture of pumpkin seeds and rust-colored grasshoppers, called chapulines. Customers at the town market buy the food by the bagful from local vendors, and many ship packages of it north to their family members […]