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EXPLORERS CLUB ANNUAL DINNER 2005
Waldorf=Astoria Hotel, New York City
Exotics & Exhibits
 As always at our famed Annual Dinner, the evening begins with cocktails and our famous exotic hors d’oeuvres. During cocktails, guests also can visit the various exhibits and find out about products and organizations related to exploration.
Exotics
Our guests will explore exotic culinary terrain as they sample these expertly-prepared delicacies:
- North American Beaver, marinated and oven-roasted
- Roasted Honey-Glazed Tarantula
- Cajun-Spiced Tempura Tarantula
- North American Crickets, perched atop a celery stick filled with pepper jelly cream cheese
- Spiced Goat Cheese Scorpion Endive Float
- Roasted Cricket—herbed cream cheese toastettes
- Sushi—seaweed and sticky rice with pickled carrots, radishes and cucumbers, bursting with mealworms
- Musca Domestica sweet maize
- Musca Domestica Larvae mushroom caps
- Musca Domestica Carnivale—Filo pastry filled with muscoid larvae topped with honey and muscoid pupae
- Pickled Duck Dongue with goat cheese on raisin bread toast
- Skewered Scorpion Crudités
- Mealworms rising from escargot butter in a delicious puff pastry
- Brandy-Spiced Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches
- Roasted South American Ants with a dollop of seasoned crème fraiche on a cucumber boat
- Sautéed Earthworms
- Elk Bourguignon
- Oven Roasted Curried Spanish Goat
Roasted Feral Hog—delicately rubbed with garlic, lemon, paprika and chili pepper
- Vertebrate Optic Globular Capsules—marinated in fine spirits and stuffed with olives and onions for our Exotic Explorer’s Martini
- Globular Optic Fritters, with a delicate gribliche sauce
- Asian Glazed Raccoon
- Alligator—delicately marinated, lightly glazed, barbecued, spiced and smiling
- Blankette of Alligator
- Succulent Rattlesnake—roasted and stewed with chipolte peppers
- Rosemary Herbed Rattlesnake Cakes with sour cream
- Rocky Mountain Oysters—prepared in a beer batter and served with chipolte aioli
- Rose Buds in champagne batter and orange, honey sauce
- Roasted Baby Zucchini with crispy flowers and fritters
- Edible Orchids—lightly glazed to hold in their delicate beauty
- Axis Deer Stew
- Braised Leg of Kangaroo
Exhibits
During cocktails, guests also can visit the various exhibits presented by some of our sponsors and donors and find out about products and organizations related to exploration.
- Africa in Style
- Canadian Arctic Holidays, Ltd
- Destination Argentina
- Dive Aleutian, LLC
- Explorers Club Travelers
- Ker & Downey
- MIR Corporation
- National Outdoor Leadership School
- Nomadic Expeditions
- Norwegian Coastal Voyage, Inc
- Polish National Tourist Office
- Redwood Creek Wines
- Space Adventures, Ltd
- Photo Exhibit "Secret Towers of the Himalayas"
- 60° North—Arctic Edge, LLC
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