The Sex Life of Food: When Body and Soul Meet to Eat

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Crumpacker, a pastry chef and cookbook author, sees food as sexy—e. An interesting idea but she seemed to be making the same points over and over. Bunny Crumpacker , a New York native, has been a professional caterer, editor, newspaper columnist, and school public relations officer. She is the author of two books based on food and recipe pamphlets issued from to —a chronicle of American cooking in those years.

There are so many ways that hunger and desire act on each other, and so many things that can influence The Sex Life of Food: When Body and Soul Meet to Eat. Eating In and Eating Out. A Few Relevant Recipes. Fisher male McDonald's meal meat menu milk mother mouth nose peanut pleasure potatoes recipe restaurant roast sauce says sexy smell Snow Snow White sometimes Song of Solomon soup spoon steak stomach story sugar swastika sweet symbol taste there's things woman women word writes wrote York. Sex in the Kitchen.

The Sex Life of Food: When Body and Soul Meet to Eat

The Sex Life of Food: When Body and Soul Meet to Eat 3. Hunger and the psyche. These are the forces that shape our lives. Bunny Crumpacker has looked at food from every angle, and brings us delicious stories about what others have done and said about eatingand about making love. This is a book you can go back to again and again and keep finding more delightsincluding uncharacteristic comments from the famous Food and sex.

This is a book you can go back to again and again and keep finding more delightsincluding uncharacteristic comments from the famous and insightful chuckles from the author herself.

It's both a banquet and a late-night nosh. Taste it, devour it, and enjoy! Paperback , pages. Published January 23rd by St. Martin's Griffin first published To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Sex Life of Food , please sign up. Lists with This Book. Dec 11, Damon rated it it was ok. I'm a foodie, a writer and actually author books about sexuality, so this book seemed like it was built for me based on title alone.

Unfortunately, I had a hard time getting past the halfway point. The challenge I had is the author's light touch. There wasn't much in it beyond physical metaphors the banana and the avocado, etc. It felt like a 1,word food magazine essay stretched i I'm a foodie, a writer and actually author books about sexuality, so this book seemed like it was built for me based on title alone.

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It felt like a 1,word food magazine essay stretched into pages. The book is far from awful, but I had very high hopes for the subject and am disappointed that it still hasn't been handled with care. Mostly regurgitated information with a stale flavor.

Ultimately, this concept is too ambitious for the caliber of this author's writing. Jun 13, Anna Engel rated it it was ok Shelves: I felt like each chapter was written as part of a serial for a cooking magazine. Fun reading separately, but a bit boring all together. And so much of this book is chicken-or-egg sorry: Do we perceive food as male or female because it inherently is shape, taste, etc. Too many factoids and tidbits, without any analysis.

The first chapter, I thought, okay, introducing the subject. The next chapter, fine, I'll give it one more. By the third, I was done and played on my phone for the remainder of my commute. Mar 24, leo rated it it was ok Shelves: I am ever hungry, ahem, for interesting stories of symbolism and folklore. This book contained several juicy tidbits, but too often reads like a thesis.

I would have preferred less spitting out of info and more story-telling. Too, academics just tend, by their very nature, to over analyze. All that psychological mumbo jumbo makes my eyes glaze over. I don't believe I have a mom complex simply because I love chocolate pudding. And for gosh sake, can't a fairy tale just be a si I am ever hungry, ahem, for interesting stories of symbolism and folklore.

And for gosh sake, can't a fairy tale just be a simple fable with a moral?

Must you try to insert every bit of psycho babble into it? Too, I haven't even researched the idea of symbolism with sex and food, yet right off the top of my head spring all sorts of things that I can't believe this author excluded. For example, she mentions famous authors having written about food or cooking, yet doesn't even mention Isabel Allende's book Aphrodite--part information about aphrodisiacs, and part cookbook, and probably my favorite book of all time.

And if art is a reflection of what was going in in the world politically, how could she not have discussed famous works of art? What about televison shows or television commercials? The ad speaks to the women who hope to look like Heidi Klum And for men, of course, the ad speaks to fetish and fantasy.

Joe Namath's famous Noxzema ad, "Take it off, take it all off", could just as easily been whipped cream. Even Hootie the owl could be deemed sexual or am I now the one over analyzing? And Nastassja Kinski made eating a strawberry pure eroticism in Tess. There is some long-winded discussion of political figures and how their food choices predicted their election results the Sargeant Shriver part was actually quite interesting , but no mention of the fact that California's governor Gray Davis ate the same exact lunch for over 30 years thick-sliced turkey, flatbread, a light swipe of mustard, raw vegetables in a baggie , bland and boring.

A book about food and sex and no mention of edible underwear, flavored oils, and a multitude of other goodies? There are several paragraphs about eggs and their meaning. She mentions miscellaneous word derivatives and significance, yet doesn't discuss the word cuckold an adulterer, the word is associated with the cuckoo bird's habit of laying their eggs in other birds' nests. She mentions holidays and festivities, but neglects German Schultute a biiiiig cone full of candy has got to have some sexual connotation, no?

Despite how it comes up short, there is enough here to have kept my curiosity piqued. It's an interesting subject afterall. View all 3 comments. Jan 23, Barb Lawrence rated it liked it Shelves: I haven't even researched the idea of symbolism with sex and food, yet right off the top of my head spring all sorts of things that I can't believe this author excluded.

For example, she mentions famous authors having written about food or cooking, yet doesn't even mention Isabel Allende's book Aphrodite--part information about aph I am ever hungry, ahem, for interesting stories of symbolism and folklore. For example, she mentions famous authors having written about food or cooking, yet doesn't even mention Isabel Allende's book Aphrodite--part information about aphrodisiacs, part cookbook, and probably my favorite book of all time. Even Hootie the owl could be deemed sexual or am I over analyzing?

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Jan 21, Chris rated it it was ok. Bunny Crumpacker is a witty and stylish writer with an interesting subject: I started to believe her thesis before I read the book. The f Bunny Crumpacker is a witty and stylish writer with an interesting subject: The first third of the book deals with this issue but it feels forced and rushed. There are some interesting ideas that she never builds upon like the correlation between how fast you eat your meals and what kind of lover you'll be but she gets sidetracked and spends a lot of time writing about things like Hitler's eating habits although it makes sense, I guess, that Der Fuhrer was not only a monster and a vegetarian, but a pervert as well.

I don't know if another writer could have made for a more interesting book on the topic but as it stands, The Sex Life of Food is a good magazine article stretched out to a dull book. Aug 21, Mattie rated it it was ok. I was really disappointed by this book. The Sex Life of Food is ostensibly about the interrelationship about food and sex. Somehow I find that hard to believe and was disappointed that the main subject of the book didn't receive a deeper analysis. The digressions into other areas, although not uninter I was really disappointed by this book.

The digressions into other areas, although not uninteresting, seemed incongruous. Alternatively, the book could really have been about the social and psychological relationships people have with food, although that would have had to have been a much more substantial undertaking. I'd give a couple of examples, but I hardly think its worth it.

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Its getting two stars instead of one because it did have occasional juicy tidbits of information. Sep 17, Ron rated it it was amazing. A somewhat misleading title to catch goofy interest, but otherwise a very interesting, very well-written book. A series of essays that meander over a number of topics relating, generally, to the psychological implications of what we eat and why we eat.

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She emphasizes the connections between food and security, being fed and our perceptions of the love of the people who feed us. At the end she goes off on some interesting tangents, such as a longish discussion of cannibalism, and Hitler's vegetari A somewhat misleading title to catch goofy interest, but otherwise a very interesting, very well-written book.