Name: Aphrodite
Rating: 3 (4 reviews)
ISBN: 9780007205165

Isabel Allende

Panchita Llona

From the internationally acclaimed author Isabel Allende, comes a magical, fascinating book exploring the intimate relationship between food and sex.This book of recipes, sensuous stories, aphrodisiacs and lovers_ spells is an irresistible fusion of Allende_s favourite things. Lavishly illustrated, this fascinating, personal guide to all things erotic encompasses a multicultural history of seduction through food, ancient and modern stories and poems about sex and eating, titillating recipes and advice. Chapter titles include: Cooking in the Nude; The Spell of Smell; Death by Perfume; Table Manners; With the Tip of the Tongue; The Orgy; Sins of the Flesh; Love Potions, and Sauces and Other Essential Fluids.

A Memoir of the Senses

Aphrodite

Under the aegis of the Goddess of Love, Isabel Allende uses her storytelling skills brilliantly in Aphrodite to evoke the delights of food and sex. After considerable research and study, she has become an authority on aphrodisiacs, which include everything from food and drink to stories and, of course, love. Readers will find here recipes from Allende's mother, poems, stories from ancient and foreign literatures, paintings, personal anecdotes, fascinating tidbits on the sensual art of food and its effects on amorous performance, tips on how to attract your mate and revive flagging virility, passages on the effect of smell on libido, a history of alcoholic beverages, and much more. An ode to sensuality that is an irresistible blend of memory, imagination and the senses, Aphrodite is familiar territory for readers who know her fiction.

Tim Pendry

<br />This is, I am afraid, a rather weak potboiler that is not a little dull where it is not trivial but it might appeal as light reading to women who like their eroticism to be naughty but nice and linked to a guilty fondness for food despite its effects on their bodies.<br /><br />You can read it for the recipes, most of which are fairly conventional although there is a nice homely Hispanic slant to them, or for the rather pedestrian history of the erotic if you are nervous of stronger fare. The book is going to be a matter of taste in all meanings of that phrase. 

Dalla salsa corallina alle pere ubriache, dall'habanera di gamberi all'insalata delle odalische, dalla zuppa scacciapensieri alle ciliegie civettuole: un patrimonio di ricette piccanti e spiritose condite con le spezie dell'ironia. Isabel Allende torna a gustare la vita. La troviamo alle prese con il mondo della cucina, tempio del piacere dei sensi e anticamera del "piacere dei piaceri". In un invito alla gioia dietro il grembiule, un gioco per nutrirsi ed inebriarsi senza prendersi troppo sul serio.

racconti, ricette e altri afrodisiaci

Afrodita

Emir Andrés Ibañez

No era chiste cuando dije una vez que leería hasta la lista de supermercado de esta mujer. Y así, sin más, cayó este libro.
Es de no ficción. De cocina, siendo más específicos. Haciendo un recorrido por antiguas épocas y diversas culturas, Allende va haciendo un retrato de la relación que hay entre la comida, el sexo y el amor. Pero aun así, me pareció un despropósito de libro. No sé, no me pareció serio ni relevante fue... raro. No sé cómo sentirme.

Nikolina Marković

Amanda Rocha

This guide to all things erotic is an international history of seduction through food, ancient and modern stories and poems about sex and eating, and titillating recipes and advice.

Aphrodite A Memoir of the Senses

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