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An exquisite, beautifully produced little book, illustrated throughout with charming line drawings and the perfect gift for lovers of all ages.
Presents a collection of recipes for soups, rice, fish and shellfish, eggs, poultry and game, mushrooms and truffles, meat, sauces, and desserts that are guaranteed to spice up any relationship.
Not your ordinary cookbook! And not your run-of-the-mill aphrodisiac recipes, either: Testicles of lamb. Skink. Vulvae Steriles. Pish-Pash. Fritters of Elder Flower. Sucking pig with eels, et al. But what would you expect from that fount of English lettres, the inimitable Norman Douglas, founder of the Capri School of Writing who, following a leisurely dinner with a coterie of middle-aged notables (including Graham Greene and D.H. Lawrence), was lamenting their declining vigour. Douglas proposed their salvation might be found in certain legendary dishes whose ingredients reputedly were capable of reviving failing ardours. While not every gourmet will be able to obtain skink, a aphrodisical reptile native to the deserts of Africa, or clean and truss a young crane, much less obtain a sufficiency of leapord's marrow to cook in goat's milk (a recipe for offsetting timidity), the ubiquitous oyster is present in various recipes, as are other comestibiles found in American cupboards.
Presents a selection of aphrodisiac recipes for soups, fish and shellfish, poultry, meat, vegetables, sauces, sweets, and drinks, and includes recipes for simple dishes as well as wildly impractical dishes