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Food Oddity: New Year's Eve Iguanadon DinnerPosted Dec 30th 2005 7:59AM by Nicole WestonFiled under: Parties, Dinner, British Isles, Food Oddities, The History of..., Did you know?On New Year's Eve, 1853, sculptor Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and comparative anatomist Richard Owen threw a party to celebrate the life-sized dinosaur
exhibit on the grounds of the Crystal Palace in London. Owen not only invented the term "dinosaur", meaning
"terrible lizzard", he created many images of what he imagned to be very advanced creatures and supervised
sculptor Waterhouse Hawkin's construction of 33 of them. The dinner party, to which 22 scientists were invited, was
held inside a life-sized mould of an iguanodon. I wish I knew what was served!
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