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Guacamole is optionally topped with agave-roasted grasshoppers (chapulines) at Alisios in Menlo Park. Photo by Michael Molcsan.

In 2012, Alexa Sol was in Guadalajara looking for furniture and decor for her soon-to-open restaurant Quinto Sol in Redwood City. She had gone to a bar and ordered a cocktail with an absolutely delicious salt rim. She ordered two more before asking the bartender what was in the salt.

“And he was like, ‘It’s ground-up grasshopper with chili,’” she recalled.

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Adrienne Mitchel is the Food Editor at Embarcadero Media. As the Peninsula Foodist, she's always on the hunt for the next food story (and the next bite to eat!). Adrienne received a BFA in Broadcast...