Sex and Bacon

ItOCOs said that how we eat is reflective of our appetite in bed. Food and sex: two universal experiences that can easily become addictive and all consuming. You donOCOt need to look faruThe Food Network, billboards, TV spots to name just a fewuto witness firsthand the explosive combination of food and sex. In "Sex and Bacon: Why I Love Things That Are Very, Very Bad for Me, " Sarah Katherine Lewis is a seductress whose observations about the interplay between food and sex are unusually delightful, sometimes raunchy, and always absorbing. "Sex and Bacon" is a unique type of lovefest, and Lewis is not your run-of-the-mill food writer. A lusty eater whoOCOs spent the better part of her adult life as a sex worker, Lewis is as reckless as she is adventurous. She writes of eating whale and bone marrow as challenges she was incapable of resisting. With chapters that hone in on the categorically simpleufat, sugar, meatuLewis infuses even the most quotidian meals and food memories with sensual observations and decadence worthy of savoring. "Sex and Bacon" is exuberantua celebration that honors the rawness and base needs that are central to our experiences of both food and sex."