Explorer's Club Dinner

  • I Ate Iguana and Venomous Lionfish with New York’s Elite

    The Explorer's Club’s famous dinner is reputed to be like something out of Andrew Bergman's The Freshman, with a hearty dash of Indiana Jones thrown in for good measure.

  • How to Cook Bugs: Waxworms

    In the final installment of our Cooking with Bugs series, we ask insect-cooking expert David George Gordon, author of The Eat-a-Bug Cookbook and chef-de-cuisine at the annual Explorers’ Club dinner in New York, how to eat waxworms. Hint: White...

  • How to Cook Bugs: Ants

    Intelligent, hive-minded, hard-working ants cause little more than a nuisance to most of us in the West. And if you know how to cook them, they can certainly be delicious, too.

  • How to Cook Bugs: Scorpions

    It's almost impossible to avoid the deluge of headlines promising that insects are the future's great sustainable protein that will save our planet. But what if we simply took insects for what they are—ingredients? We spoke to one of the world's...

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