Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #775902 in Books
• Published on: 2007-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Synopsis
The sex life of food is a delightful panorama about how our two strongest urges, food and sex, work with one another in surprising ways. Facts and ideas, lavishly flavoured with humour, lead from one observation to another. "Food is Love," writes Crumpacker. "If cooking is foreplay, eating is making love, and doing the dishes is the morning after." A few of the topics that will make readers hunger for "The Sex Life Of Food" include: Food as politics; Choosing the first bite; Cooking as seduction; Aphrodisiacs; The sensuality of the mouth; Jack's magic beanstalk; and Sex in the kitchen - literally and metaphorically.

Customer Reviews

Tasty morsels!
'The Sex Life of Food' seemed like an incredibly intriguing title for a book, which is what led me to pick up this excellent book.It wasn't quite what I was expecting, but it didn't disappoint.

The book explores the complex relationship between food, sex, sensuality, our history and who we are, covering all kinds of topics, such as:
whether certain foods are considered male or female;
aphrodisiacs; restaurant decor; comfort foods; food symbolism in fairy tales; the part food has played in politics and an excellent (and intelligently explored) chapter on cannabalism.

The book does jump around a little which may annoy some readers and its scope might be considered ambitious, but if you abandon youself and go with it, you won't be disappointed.

Lots of interesting facts, intelligent explorations of different topics, humour and a really pleasant narrative voice. Highly recommended.