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Hot, Sweet, and Sticky: 12 Romantic Feasts to Tempt Your Lover

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Many cookbooks and food writers attempt to connect food and sexuality, but few succeed without cliche and an overwrought writing style. Doreen Garrett is the exception: not only are the recipes imaginative and alluring, she never overstretches in her writing, blending historical detail with suggestive references, for example, to "pungent after-sex" when speaking of truffles. As a cookbook, it stands on its own, but the connection to romance is never neglected. Sprinkled with wonderful extracts of poems and quotations from a variety of arcane sources, the "twelve romantic feasts" range from a seductive picnic spread to a romantic cornucopia to accompany a proposal of marriage. Even if you just take this book to bed and read it aloud to your lover, you will arouse desire, but then you'd miss out on sex in the kitchen.

Compiled by food and wine expert Doreen Garrett, Hot, Sweet & Sticky: 12 Romantic Feasts To Tempt Your Lover is a very special cookbook for adult couples which emphasizes foods that goes especially well with the pursuit of mutual pleasure. The dishes are both sexy and tasty, ranging from Crabmeat Gazpacho to Chocolate Cinnamon Breakfast Buns. These easy-to-make savory delights are especially recommended for when cooking on romantic getaways together.