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"  If a server at a dinner event said the special for the evening was rat, most people would think it was a joke. But that wasn&amp;#039;t the case at the Allegra LaViola Gallery in New York City last week, where guests choked down goat cheese bruschetta with rat tenderloin, rat-pork terrine, rat braise, and French toast with smoked rat for dessert. According to The New York Times, artist Laura Ginn hosted an exhibition event as part of her project called, &amp;quot;Tomorrow We Will Feast Again on What We Catch.&amp;quot; Guests were served a multi-course dinner of rats. The dinner cost $100 each and diners had to sign a liability waver before taking their first bites. More From Delish: They Eat What?! Strange Foods from Around the Globe Ginn&amp;#039;s project, as explained on her Kickstarter page, explores self-sufficiency in an urban environment. She documents her adventures using both photography and performance. Photographs of her at the exhibit showed her dismantling a deer head. Her dress for the event was homemade; 300 rat pelts were used as material. The artist&amp;#039;s interest in being self-sufficient in the city led her to eat rats and have them prepared for dinner at the gallery. She explained, &amp;quot;I could&amp;#039;ve gone with pigeon. I think people are a little more comfortable with pigeon, and I wanted to put people outside of their comfort zone.&amp;quot; Luckily for the brave souls who actually participated in the dinner, the rodents were not sourced from the subway. Instead, they were &amp;quot;perfectly safe&amp;quot; rats shipped from a processor that supplies pet owners with humanely killed rodents. Seventy-five rats were used in the preparation of the dinner and rat carcass parts, such as spines and ribs, were used as table centerpieces. More From Delish: 15 Strange Food Phobias Chef Yuri Hart had the grueling challenge of creating the all-rat menu. To prepare he ate rats for five days, enduring jokes about pairing rats with trash. He had $400 for the menu and took a &amp;quot;nose-to-tail&amp;quot; approach, although he ultimately found the tails to be inedible. Would you try a bite of rat bruschetta or rat braise? What about pay a whopping $100 for a multi-course rat dinner?  Find more great food content on Delish: Search for the perfect recipe from our homepage Find out the latest food news Get a recipe book to save your favorite dishes Sign up for our free newsletters Check us out on Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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