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Cuisine From the Collections offers up some rare tastes
Sample some little-seen and potentially challenging fare at the Academy of Natural Sciences.
Cuisine From the Collections offers up some rare tastes
A cocktail party dubbed “Cuisine From the Collections” at the Academy of Natural Sciences (1900 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy) may not sound like a Halloween party at first blush, but consider further: you’re invited to wear a costume, and they will feed you worms. Et voilà! Thematic integrity!
The menu for the evening is “inspired by the 18 million specimens in the Academy’s scientific collections”—think a salt tasting to represent the Mineral collection, game like buffalo and rabbit that will bring to mind the museum’s famous dioramas, and some creepier, crawlier additions from the Entomology department. The museum’s in-house caterer, 12th Street Catering, will prepare the meal with the help of students and chefs from Drexel’s Culinary Arts program. And while it sounds like some safer options like chicken, steak, and sushi will be on offer, you’ll also get a chance to sample bites featuring snails, snakes, crickets, and worms.
It’s not exactly Noma, but it’s a hell of a lot closer. The party, inclusive of all your food and drinks, is $100 a head ($75 for members), and is scheduled for Oct. 27th starting at 7 p.m. Better yet: the dress code, which specifies “Halloween or cocktail attire,” is one of those vague enough to leave open the possibility that you may be treated to the additional entertainment of one sexy tiger baby or cheerleader floating uncomfortably in a sea of demure cocktail dresses paired with generic Venetian masks. Fingers crossed! You can buy your tickets right here.
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