The Love of Food and the Food of Love.
The pleasures of eating can preplace the pleasures of sex, and this charming book aims to reconcile the two appetites, offering sensual recipes to tempt jaded palates. In her succulent study of erotology and foodstuffs, whether the spirited Chilean novelist Isabel Allende is breakfasting on sea snake or describing a vibrator that plays Viennese waltzes, her focus is upon pleasure rather than fertility.
'Aphrodite' is a spellbinding work, and is insistently practical: many of the recipes have been tested on volunteers. The book goads our saliva glands to squirt at her description of entirely notional meals as she transports us to an altogether more agreeable place; a paradise of language.
