{"product_id":"lustful-appetites-an-intimate-history-of-good-food-and-wicked-sex-hardback-9781509553631","title":"Lustful Appetites; An Intimate History of Good Food and Wicked Sex (Hardback) 9781509553631","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLustful Appetites\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAn Intimate History of Good Food and Wicked Sex\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRachel Hope Cleves (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509553631, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 29 November 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 16.3 x 3 cm, 0.59 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The depth and scope of the research alone is remarkable. That Rachel Hope Cleves is able to weave so many strands in the history of food and sex into such a fascinating and readable book is a testament to her skills as both a scholar and an author. \u003ci\u003eLustful Appetites\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential book for anyone interested in the transgressive history of food.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Birdsall, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Rachel Hope Cleves serves up a delightful new history of American food culture. She reveals how ideas about gastronomy and restaurants developed in step with notions of sex and sexuality. Far more than a history of aphrodisiacs and erotic cookbooks, \u003ci\u003eLustful Appetites\u003c\/i\u003e shows how appetites for food and sex have been historically understood, embraced, and constrained ‒ and how today’s readers can nurture such true pleasures.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmily J. H. Contois, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiners, Dudes \u0026amp; Diets: How Gender \u0026amp; Power Collide in Food Media \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Have you ever been bored in a bar or restaurant, and wished you had a thousand sexy, fascinating anecdotes so everyone would lean in, gasp, and giggle? Well brother, you've found the motherlode. Rachel Hope Cleves' Lustful Appetites is the racy, dishy encyclopedia of all that's sexy and dishy. Like: What bit of human anatomy did all of France once agree resembled a crawfish? Did you ever hear of soupeuses, who lured men to eat soup in restaurants? Did you hear the one about America's greatest food writer M.F.K. Fisher, the 100 raw oysters, and the lesbians in the girls' school kitchen? Did you ever wonder what Hooters and Top Chef have in common? Extraordinarily deeply researched, amusing, surprising, and thoroughly recommended to anyone who wants to wink and drink and chat and wink some more.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDara Moskowitz Grumdahl, six-time James Beard Award winner, former \u003ci\u003eGourmet\u003c\/i\u003e contributor, author of \u003ci\u003eDrink This: Wine Made Simple\u003c\/i\u003e, and senior writer at \u003ci\u003eMpls.St.Paul\u003c\/i\u003e magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"wonderfully wicked\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTip of the Tongue: Think Food\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Extremely detailed on characters, locations and menus, this is a serious and entertaining contribution to the social history of food”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTLS\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A remarkably toothsome and vastly informative gastronomic journey.”\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“delightful […] To write provocatively takes restraint, and Cleves’s style is crisp and wry.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Irish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe take the edible trappings of flirtation 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? Rachel Hope Cleves explores the long association between indulging in good food and an appetite for naughty sex, from the development of the Parisian restaurant as a place for men to meet with prostitutes and mistresses, to the role of sexual outlaws like bohemians, new women, lesbians and gay men in creating epicurean culture in Britain and the United States. Taking readers on a gastronomic journey from Paris and London to New York, Chicago and San Francisco, \u003ci\u003eLustful Appetites \u003c\/i\u003ereveals how this preoccupation changed the ways we eat and the ways we are intimate―while also creating stigmas that persist well into our own twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: Good Food, Wicked Sex\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: The Pleasures of the Table\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: Innocents Abroad\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3:  Perverted Tastes\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: Private Rooms and Rooms Private\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: Pretty Waiter Girls\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6: Dinners in Bohemia\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7: Greedy Women\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8: Mistresses of Gastropornography\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9: Gay Gourmets    \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10:  Foodies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Epilogue:  Good Sex, Bad Food\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20%5BHB%5D%22\"\u003eHB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52463004123416,"sku":"9781509553631","price":18.28,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509553631.jpg?v=1785544889","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/lustful-appetites-an-intimate-history-of-good-food-and-wicked-sex-hardback-9781509553631","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}