Lustful Appetites: An Intimate History of Good Food and Wicked Sex (Rachel Hope Cleves) Milanese all accompanied by Mayes’s evocative

all accompanied by Mayes’s evocative text

Taking readers across the country’s regions and beyond in the first book in Reaktion’s new Foods and Nations series

Celebrate taking tea in all its guises

with regional recipes for using them in cooking

Lustful Appetites: An Intimate History of Good Food and Wicked Sex (Rachel Hope Cleves) Milanese all accompanied by Mayes’s evocativeWe take the edible trappings of flirtation and infatuation for granted: chocolate covered strawberries and romance, oysters on the half shell and desire, the eggplant emoji and a suggestive wink. But why does it feel so natural for us to link food and sexual pleasure? In this enticing new book, historian Rachel Hope Cleves explores the long association between indulging in good food and an appetite for immoral sex. From the Parisian invention of the