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Degustation plate of insects traditionally eaten by the Aztecs and still available in pubic markets in Mexico City. Insects, clockwise from the top, are grasshoppers (plain), chicatana ants, jumiles (stink bugs), chinicuiles (red maguey worms), cocopache (leaf-footed bug), grasshoppers (salted), grasshoppers (adobo), ahuautles or “mosco de río” (water fly), and acociles (crayfish). Scorpions are in the center of the plate.
Photo by Andrea M. Liceaga.
