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Sex and Bacon: Why I Love Things That Are Very, Very Bad for Me

Sex and Bacon: Why I Love Things That Are Very, Very Bad for Me

zoom enlarge 		Author: Sarah Katherine Lewis
Publisher: Seal Press
Category: Book

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Format: Illustrated
Media: Paperback
Edition: illustrated edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.9

ISBN: 1580052282
Dewey Decimal Number: 394.12
EAN: 9781580052283
ASIN: 1580052282

Publication Date: May 1, 2008
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DIVIt#8217;s 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 don#8217;t need to look far#8212;The Food Network, billboards, TV spots to name just a few#8212;to witness firsthand the explosive combination of food and sex. BRBRIn ISex and Bacon: Why I Love Things That Are Very, Very Bad for Me,/I Sarah Katherine Lewis is a seductress whose observations about the interplay between food and sex are unusually delightful, sometimes raunchy, and always absorbing. ISex and Bacon/I is a unique type of lovefest, and Lewis is not your run-of-the-mill food writer. BRBRA lusty eater who#8217;s 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 simple#8212;fat, sugar, meat#8212;Lewis infuses even the most quotidian meals and food memories with sensual observations and decadence worthy of savoring. ISex and Bacon/I is exuberant#8212;a celebration that honors the rawness and base needs that are central to our experiences of both food and sex. /DIV

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5 out of 5 stars Satisfying Our Hungers   December 31, 2008
Sex and Bacon was my final book read in 2008 as I wanted a horrendous year to end on a positive note. I couldn't have chosen better. SKL managed to make me laugh, bring me to tears, and turn me on in less than 300 pages. I honestly can't think of another book that's succeeded at all three.br /br /While others have cited her casual writing style as a detriment, it's what I find most engaging. It reads like a conversation with a good friend who's stronger, braver, smarter, and sexier than you. The friend you aspire to be like; only to have her turn around and make you realize you're just fine the way you are.br /br /"What would happen if we all decided that we were going to eat how we wanted, f--k how we wanted, dress how we wanted, live how we wanted?"br /br /I can only hope that every single one of us finds out the answer to that question.


5 out of 5 stars Funny Funny Funny, and smart!   September 16, 2008
I read this in bed last night and laughed so freaking hard I had tears coming out of my eyes. Food, recipes, laughs, sex, love...perfect. I will never look at broccoli the same again. And the BQ, well, I'd always wondered that myself and now I know. Sarah Katherine Lewis is fantastic! More, more!


5 out of 5 stars An enthralling collection of vignettes   August 14, 2008
Highly recommended. In Sex and Bacon, SKL has penned a series of sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, sometimes biting, and always fascinating short essays. Interspersed are recipes presented not in strict and measured portions, but rather as a mother or grandmother might explain - a dash of this, a bit of this if you have some, if not, a bit of that is ok too.br /br /As with her previous book, Indecent, once you start, you'll have a difficult time setting the book aside. Indeed, you may have an even more difficult time, as the sections are sufficiently concise and well-edited you'll easily talk yourself into reading just one more.br /br /I'll end with an excerpt of my favourite section, in which SKL recounts a tale of trying a dish that she realizes she will likely never experience ever again. It's a keen observation, equally applicable to any singular experience in life:br /br /"... I thought that the really terrible thing about eating something so important and singular and special is that once you've done it, you know that pretty much everything else you consume will be lesser than. Some things the Devil tempts you to eat, laughing, the way he handed the of knowledge to poor Eve. Sometimes it's better not to know, so you can live in peaceful ignorance."


5 out of 5 stars Food = love   June 5, 2008
 2 out of 2 found this review helpful

Reading this book was like a little feminazi epiphany for me.br /br /Sometimes you just need to be told that it's okay to enjoy sex, and it's okay to enjoy food.br /Logically, we should know this already, but there are times when hearing it from an outside source just drives it home.br /br /I really and truly think I am in love, and it's not often that the object of my affection is a mass of bound paper and ink.


5 out of 5 stars incredibly entertaining   June 2, 2008
 3 out of 3 found this review helpful

The funny parts of this book are literally laugh-out-loud funny. The foody parts are enticing. The gross parts are pretty damn gross. And the sad parts are sad, but tempered by the tenderness and good humor and intelligence of the author. Ms. Lewis transcends her genre(s) in a big way. Like her first book, this one is impossible to put down until it's finished because the author's voice is so compelling. I always want to hear more of what she has to say.

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