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The unique diet of The African Malawi people, respect it, love it, love to eat it, the local people's way of survival

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The unique diet of The African Malawi people, respect it, love it, love to eat it, the local people's way of survival

Located in southeastern Africa, Malawi is a beautiful country. Malawi has two seasons, one is the dry season and the other is the rainy season, the dry season, from April to November, in September, October, November, in the months of September, October, November, not a drop of rain is felt. The rainy season begins in December and ends in late March.

The unique diet of The African Malawi people, respect it, love it, love to eat it, the local people's way of survival

The Malawi people have been saying for generations that insects cannot be eaten, with the exception of termites and locusts. Malawi people love to eat these protein-packed goodies. Children collect termites outdoors and take them home to cook.

The unique diet of The African Malawi people, respect it, love it, love to eat it, the local people's way of survival

I didn't meet a single Malawi who didn't like to eat them. Every spring and summer during the termite breeding season, there is an unwritten rule in many local rural areas that it is not allowed to work in the field, on the grounds that it is actually to protect termite breeding.

The unique diet of The African Malawi people, respect it, love it, love to eat it, the local people's way of survival

Even in the autumn when termites can be eaten, the locals pay attention not to "fishing in the mountains", usually do not use the method of killing chickens and eggs like directly pounding termite nests, and in most cases, when the rainy season comes, light an oil lamp on the table of their huts. Termite colonies, tired of the humid environment, will pounce on the oil lamp one after another because of the instinct of light, and quickly burn off their wings by the lamp. These termites that have lost their wings will fall on the table like rain, and it is a bowl at a glance.

The unique diet of The African Malawi people, respect it, love it, love to eat it, the local people's way of survival

Children pluck the wings of termites, take them home, and fry them into a delicious protein snack.

The unique diet of The African Malawi people, respect it, love it, love to eat it, the local people's way of survival

While I was talking to the neighbor, she happened to be cooking on the charcoal stove outside, yes, termites, and she was dealing with the harvest from the night before.

The unique diet of The African Malawi people, respect it, love it, love to eat it, the local people's way of survival

Usually the method of making termites is simple: the first step is to heat the pot on the stove of the termite house, and this step is to kill the termites. In the second part, the termites are fished out of the pot and dried, and then the wings are removed. Finally, the termites are cooked with a little oil and salt.

The unique diet of The African Malawi people, respect it, love it, love to eat it, the local people's way of survival

There are many ways for locals to eat termites, such as directly putting raw termites in their mouths and chewing them, and eating them as snacks when they are fried in oil; some of them are dried and fried with salt as "pickles"; or they are mixed with dried termites and cornmeal, steamed or boiled, and then poured with special marinade, which is about a meal.

The unique diet of The African Malawi people, respect it, love it, love to eat it, the local people's way of survival

Malawi is located in a tropical montane grassland, the temperature and humidity are particularly suitable for termites to survive and reproduce, and the termite nests here are often as high as several meters, and some are even as spectacular as small castles. Local residents mostly live in grass huts, earthen houses, termites generally do not moth these buildings, even if occasionally mothed, rebuilt is easy, so the locals do not take the termite "scourge" as a big deal, but because termites have strong reproductive ability, to provide locals with particularly rich protein food and delicious!

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