Food for Lovers ~ Kelly Brodsky

Food for Lovers is the kind of book you wish you had an excuse to pull out every morning - kind of. I quite like the idea behind the book, the seduction experience with a sensual meal at the centre, but I'd probably have written it a little differently myself. That said, the book was published in 1971, which had a different flavour entirely, both in a sexual and in a culinary sense.


The chapter headings are perhaps the worst thing about the book, and although a little corny, some of the recipes are not too bad at all. Perhaps you might have use for the Morning-after pick-me-up or Wine and song prunes from the 'Gad-about Guy' chapter, or from the 'Freddy Finikin' chapter the Potent love flip, Passionfruit whip or Aphrodite's stuffed vine-leaves. I worry a little with the 'Dino Valentino' chapter featuring Gran's gingerbread and Gran's buttery shortbread, but you can always skip past that and go straight to the 'Jack Snack' chapter for Hot cakes. Personally I think I'll stick to the 'Greek Rod God' with his Wine-steeped lamb shanks baked in foil or Lobster thermidor. Or would I?

Recommended for 1970's porn star throwbacks and kitsch lovers alike. I love the book, so I wonder what that makes me?

- Kath