Each month, the Masters of Social Gastronomy (Sarah of Four Pounds Flour and the Brainery's Soma) take on the history and science behind some of your favorite edibles. Up this month: the world’s strangest (and most expensive) edibles.

Join MSG on Wednesday, March 25 to uncover the oddball background of the world’s priciest coffee, what a jungle cat has to do with your mild roast, and the Chinese delicacy that is bird’s nest soup. Hear harrowing tales about the lengths mankind will go to obtain aromatic animal extracts--flavoring from a deer’s butt, anyone?--in high demand as dessert flavorings from the medieval era through the 19th century.

More info and optional RSVP here!