Sex on the Kitchen Table
Sex on the Kitchen Table

Author: Norman C. Ellstrand

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2018-09-22

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 022657489X

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At the tips of our forks and on our dinner plates, a buffet of botanical dalliance awaits us. Sex and food are intimately intertwined, and this relationship is nowhere more evident than among the plants that sustain us. From lascivious legumes to horny hot peppers, most of humanity’s calories and other nutrition come from seeds and fruits—the products of sex—or from flowers, the organs that make plant sex possible. Sex has also played an arm’s-length role in delivering plant food to our stomachs, as human handmade evolution (plant breeding, or artificial selection) has turned wild species into domesticated staples. In Sex on the Kitchen Table, Norman C. Ellstrand takes us on a vegetable-laced tour of this entire sexual adventure. Starting with the love apple (otherwise known as the tomato) as a platform for understanding the kaleidoscopic ways that plants can engage in sex, successive chapters explore the sex lives of a range of food crops, including bananas, avocados, and beets, finally ending with genetically engineered squash—a controversial, virus-resistant vegetable created by a process that involves the most ancient form of sex. Peppered throughout are original illustrations and delicious recipes, from sweet and savory tomato pudding to banana puffed pancakes, avocado toast (of course), and both transgenic and non-GMO tacos. An eye-opening medley of serious science, culinary delights, and humor, Sex on the Kitchen Table offers new insight into fornicating flowers, salacious squash, and what we owe to them. So as we sit down to dine and ready for that first bite, let us say a special grace for our vegetal vittles: let’s thank sex for getting them to our kitchen table.

Sex on the Table
Sex on the Table

Author: Juerg Federer

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-02-14

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9781985159464

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HORNY HAUTE CUISINE REVEALED: SEX ON THE TABLE sold out 500 consecutive events in New York City. In this book, we uncover 60 jaw-dropping date night recipes, 20 seductive menus, 40+ unexpected flavor profiles, the dirty little secrets of a chef's trade - including ChefFed's badass cheat-sheet to cook the perfect steak; from New York's secret underground aphrodisiac cooking masterclass SEX ON THE TABLE (2012 - 2017). And we expose the awe-inspiring experiences more than 10'000 indulging New Yorkers shared with SEX ON THE TABLE founder, author, and chef J�rg ChefFed" Federer. Watching ChefFed slice an Onion is kind of erotic the same way watching an NBA player score a two-pointer."~ Cosmopolitan The coolest thing to Do in New York City." ~ Time Out New York ChefFed is America's leading aphrodisiac Chef." ~ E!News "Out of the more than 10.000 students I have taught at Sex on the Table in New York City, I consider myself to be the novice that has learned the most. None of the big-name chefs I surrounded myself with at a young age, no gaping wound from a French knife, and no sweat drenching 16-hour shift would prepare me for the experiences I would go on to have in New York City's new culinary markets. And ultimately at my aphrodisiac cooking school, Sex on the Table. ~ ChefFed

Sex
Sex

Author: Madonna

Publisher: Harvill Secker

Published: 1992-01

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780436270840

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A Court of Silver Flames
A Court of Silver Flames

Author: Sarah J. Maas

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2021-02-16

Total Pages: 788

ISBN-13: 1635576199

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Sarah J. Maas's sexy, richly imagined series continues with the journey of Feyre's fiery sister, Nesta. Nesta Archeron has always been prickly-proud, swift to anger, and slow to forgive. And ever since being forced into the Cauldron and becoming High Fae against her will, she's struggled to find a place for herself within the strange, deadly world she inhabits. Worse, she can't seem to move past the horrors of the war with Hybern and all she lost in it. The one person who ignites her temper more than any other is Cassian, the battle-scarred warrior whose position in Rhysand and Feyre's Night Court keeps him constantly in Nesta's orbit. But her temper isn't the only thing Cassian ignites. The fire between them is undeniable, and only burns hotter as they are forced into close quarters with each other. Meanwhile, the treacherous human queens who returned to the Continent during the last war have forged a dangerous new alliance, threatening the fragile peace that has settled over the realms. And the key to halting them might very well rely on Cassian and Nesta facing their haunting pasts. Against the sweeping backdrop of a world seared by war and plagued with uncertainty, Nesta and Cassian battle monsters from within and without as they search for acceptance-and healing-in each other's arms.

Not Under My Roof
Not Under My Roof

Author: Amy T. Schalet

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2011-09-30

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 0226736202

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Winner of the Healthy Teen Network’s Carol Mendez Cassell Award for Excellence in Sexuality Education and the American Sociological Association's Children and Youth Section's 2012 Distinguished Scholarly Research Award For American parents, teenage sex is something to be feared and forbidden: most would never consider allowing their children to have sex at home, and sex is a frequent source of family conflict. In the Netherlands, where teenage pregnancies are far less frequent than in the United States, parents aim above all for family cohesiveness, often permitting young couples to sleep together and providing them with contraceptives. Drawing on extensive interviews with parents and teens, Not Under My Roof offers an unprecedented, intimate account of the different ways that girls and boys in both countries negotiate love, lust, and growing up. Tracing the roots of the parents’ divergent attitudes, Amy T. Schalet reveals how they grow out of their respective conceptions of the self, relationships, gender, autonomy, and authority. She provides a probing analysis of the way family culture shapes not just sex but also alcohol consumption and parent-teen relationships. Avoiding caricatures of permissive Europeans and puritanical Americans, Schalet shows that the Dutch require self-control from teens and parents, while Americans guide their children toward autonomous adulthood at the expense of the family bond.

My Place At The Table
My Place At The Table

Author: Alexander Lobrano

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2021-06-01

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1328585212

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In this debut memoir, a James Beard Award–winning writer, whose childhood idea of fine dining was Howard Johnson’s, tells how he became one of Paris’s most influential food critics Until Alec Lobrano landed a job in the glamorous Paris office of Women’s Wear Daily, his main experience of French cuisine was the occasional supermarket éclair. An interview with the owner of a renowned cheese shop for his first article nearly proves a disaster because he speaks no French. As he goes on to cover celebrities and couturiers and improves his mastery of the language, he gradually learns what it means to be truly French. He attends a cocktail party with Yves St. Laurent and has dinner with Giorgio Armani. Over a superb lunch, it’s his landlady who ultimately provides him with a lasting touchstone for how to judge food: “you must understand the intentions of the cook.” At the city’s brasseries and bistros, he discovers real French cooking. Through a series of vivid encounters with culinary figures from Paul Bocuse to Julia Child to Ruth Reichl, Lobrano hones his palate and finds his voice. Soon the timid boy from Connecticut is at the epicenter of the Parisian dining revolution and the restaurant critic of one of the largest newspapers in the France. A mouthwatering testament to the healing power of food, My Place at the Table is a moving coming-of-age story of how a gay man emerges from a wounding childhood, discovers himself, and finds love. Published here for the first time is Lobrano’s “little black book,” an insider’s guide to his thirty all-time-favorite Paris restaurants.