Fork Me, Spoon Me:
The Sensual Cookbook
by Amy Reiley

Reviewed by Liz Brown

Promising to stimulate more than just your taste buds, Fork Me, Spoon Me: The Sensual Cookbook unveils the pleasure seekers’ potions. Using sultry, provocative language, this tiny volume offers easy-to-follow recipes highlighting ingredients known for their arousal-inducing potential. Mint, recommended by Shakespeare as a natural Viagra for middle-aged men, is used to prepare shrimp-stuffed springs rolls. Ginger root, known to raise body heat, spices up the morning with breakfast in bed, feasting on triple ginger-bread. And saffron, used by the Romans to scent baths of aristocratic gentlemen and their inamoratas, infuses saffron-basil matzo ball soup with love. Author Amy Reiley, the second American to earn a Master of Gastronomy from Le Cordon Bleu, also includes a chapter on sauces, quirky anecdotes and original info about the aphrodisiacs used in each recipe. Raise your spatula and fire up the oven, all in the spirit of sexy.

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