NY Eats BugsNYES, The Explorers Club, MSNH, Alimentary InitiativesSaturday, November 21, 2015 from 3:30 PM to 6:00 PM (EST) |
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Event Details
Join your hosts
The New York Entomological Society, The Explorers Club, The Metropolitan Society of Natural Historians, and Alimentary Initiatives
for one or both events about eating insects.
Crickets & Cocktails 4 pm - 6 pm (Doors open at 3:30)
tastes & talks on edible insects
featuring talks by movers and shakers in the entomophagy world.
Ticket price includes libations, gratuities and edible bug canapés.
$20
The New York Banquet of Bugs (Doors open at 7 pm)
edible insects in six courses
Ticket price includes libations, gratuities and dinner.
$125
Banquet and canapés prepared by Natalia "Cookie" Martinez with special guests including Mario Hernandez of The Black Ant restaurant in the east village.
Each event is ticketed separately. Both events take place at the beautiful and historic location of The Explorers Club.
SPEAKERS for Crickets & Cocktails include:
Dr. Phillip Barden, a paleoentomologist and a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Rutgers University.
Mr. Louis N. Sorkin, Treasurer of the NYES, Host of the 100th NYES Bug Banquet, held in 1992 at The Explorers Club and entomologist with the Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History
Ms. Katharina Unger, designer, entrepreneur and inventor of LIVIN Farms, the world's first edible insect desktop hive.
Your MC for the Crickets & Cocktails event is Baron Ambrosia, member of The Explorers Club.
SPONSORS AND PARTNERS
We are very happy to be partnering with:
JIMINI'S • DANIELLE FORTE • LIVIN FARMS • BIG CRICKET FARMS • CRICKET FLOURS • THE BLACK ANT'S CHEF MARIO HERNANDEZ
CRITTER BITTERS • THE FUTURE FOOD SALON GROUP • THIRD MILLENNIUM FARMING • THE GRACER COLLECTION • MICRONUTRIS •
GOURMEX INC. • HOT BREAD KITCHEN * CHAPUL • EXO
TOP FIVE REASONS TO EAT INSECTS
1. Sustainability: Insects require less food, water and land than current livestock.
2. Environment: Insects produce less methane than current livestock.
3. Nutrition: Bugs like crickets are full of protein, heart healthy Omega-3 fats, and are low in cholesterol.
4. Taste: Bugs are pretty tasty, and they absorb the flavours of the other foods with which they are cooked.
5. Ethics: Bugs can be euthanised so that they are in a deep sleep (in a frozen state) when they are killed.
TOP FIVE REASONS TO DRINK COCKTAILS
Just kidding.
Please note: insects can be a food allergen, especially for those who have shellfish allergies.
INFO: nyeatsbugs@alimentaryinitiatives.com
PHONE: 917.250.0106
When & Where
The Explorers Club
46 E 70th St
New York,
New York 10021
Saturday, November 21, 2015 from 3:30 PM to 6:00 PM (EST)
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NYES, The Explorers Club, MSNH, Alimentary Initiatives
Four hosts are bringing you the two events of NY Eats Bugs.
The New York Entomological Society was founded in 1892, and has since held a distinguished position among scientific and cultural organizations. The Brooklyn Entomological Society consolidated with the NYES in 1968. Members and subscribers are drawn from all parts of the world and include professional biologists, enthusiastic amateurs, and laymen for whom insects are only one amid many interests. The Society's Journal is among the oldest leading entomological periodicals in the United States. In 1992, the Society held its Centennial Banquet at The Explorer's Club; the menu and guest lecture featured edible insects.
The Explorers Club was organized on May 28, 1904, at a dinner at the Aldine Association, located at 111 Fifth Avenue in New York City by fifty men well known in exploration. The Club began to invite both explorers returning from the field and visiting scientists to tell of their experiences. This informal practice developed into the smoker-lecture illustrated talks of the 1930s and 1940s, and today, the Club hosts public lectures, members-only lectures, and other Special Events. Members also tell their stories through Publications, Flag Reports, and our ECOH Oral History. In 1965 the Club purchased its current headquarters at 46 East 70th Street. The Explorers Club hosted the NY Entomological Society’s first bug banquet in 1992.
The Metropolitan Society of Natural Historians (MSNH) is a 501 (c) non-for-profit organization based in New York City dedicated to science education for the public benefit. Since its founding in 2011, the MSNH has hosted over 40 events in New York. Events typically include free tours of natural history collections, research labs and exhibits led by scientists at renowned institutions across New York City including the American Museum of Natural History, The New York Botanical Garden and Rockefeller University. Additionally, the MSNH hosts guided walks and hikes in Central Park and nearby state forests.
Alimentary Initiatives is a future food agency in Toronto founded by Dr. Aruna Antonella Handa. In addition to consulting work, Alimentary hosts events and conducts experiments designed to detail a future of food in which everyone has enough good food to eat. Together with members of the Future Food Salon Group and Montreal's Space for Life Insectarium, Alimentary hosted North America's first international conference on edible insects in 2014. Alimentary has hosted Future Food Salons on edible insects in several North American cities, including New York. The next Future Food Salon series will launch in 2016.
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