Crickets, worms on menu for Philly museum event
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — When a natural history museum throws a party, it figures that some unusual food might end up on the menu.
Interested in noshing on crickets, worms and farm-raised python? The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia has an event for you.
It's hosting an adults-only cocktail party on Oct. 27 called "Cuisine From the Collections."
While many of the living plants and animals represented in the museum's 18 million research specimens already are food for other species, most aren't your typical kitchen staples.
Other menu items will include seaweed, buffalo and rabbit. The food is by the museum's caterer and chefs and students from Drexel University's Goodwin College of Professional Studies.
Tickets are $100 for nonmembers. Proceeds benefit the 200-year-old institution's mission of scientific research and exploration.
Interested in noshing on crickets, worms and farm-raised python? The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia has an event for you.
It's hosting an adults-only cocktail party on Oct. 27 called "Cuisine From the Collections."
While many of the living plants and animals represented in the museum's 18 million research specimens already are food for other species, most aren't your typical kitchen staples.
Other menu items will include seaweed, buffalo and rabbit. The food is by the museum's caterer and chefs and students from Drexel University's Goodwin College of Professional Studies.
Tickets are $100 for nonmembers. Proceeds benefit the 200-year-old institution's mission of scientific research and exploration.
They had better be bacon-wrapped or I'm not interested.
 @WendyTeagarden you're right on with the bacon. We're gonna need a fine craft beer to go with this....I'm thinkin' a Praying Mantis Ale....
Lots of beer......and shots....
@beernpizza  I was thinkin' more of a bacon-flavored bloody mary.....Yuuuuummmmmmmmm
And dipped in chocolate.
Sounds great, I haven't had Chinese food in a long time.Â
@swimbad  Ahhhh, Grasshopper.
 @WendyTeagarden Ahhhh, Gwasshoppa, not everthing taste like chicken!
@swimbad Thank you, Master Po