Sex and Bacon: Why I Love Things That Are Very, Very Bad for Me | 
| Author: Sarah Katherine Lewis
Publisher: Seal Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 100021
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
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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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Product Description
It’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’t need to look far—The Food Network, billboards, TV spots to name just a few—to 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 who’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—fat, sugar, meat—Lewis infuses even the most quotidian meals and food memories with sensual observations and decadence worthy of savoring. Sex and Bacon is exuberant—a celebration that honors the rawness and base needs that are central to our experiences of both food and sex.
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Food = love June 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Reading this book was like a little feminazi epiphany for me.
Sometimes you just need to be told that it's okay to enjoy sex, and it's okay to enjoy food.
Logically, we should know this already, but there are times when hearing it from an outside source just drives it home.
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.
incredibly entertaining June 2, 2008
2 out of 2 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.
Devour it. June 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Imagine your favorite cooking show hostess. Now imagine her in your kitchen, wearing plastic hot pants and a smile, pouring you a glass of red wine and telling anecdotes from her previous life as a sex worker.
That was what I pictured, anyway, while reading Sarah Katherine's new book, Sex and Bacon. Her collection of short essays explores a variety of topics, including body image, Britney Spears and, of course, the ultimate question: How much bacon is enough? I loved the way Sarah interspersed tales of heartache and tips on how to get laid (hint: it involves pumpkin pie) with recipes that even the most kitchen-impaired can follow. Her book is honest, smart and open - just like the lovely author herself.
A delight for the senses! May 29, 2008
Today, I walked through my front door after work, my feet aching from 8 hours of being crammed into my too-tight but damn sexy black Mary Jane stilettos. I couldn't wait to kick them off and throw on some old sweats and pull my hair up off my face.
Then I saw a small package sticking up through the mailbox, and inside, a brand new shiny copy of Sarah Katherine Lewis's newest book.
I curled up on the couch and was instantly absorbed. It took me a full hour and half to finally notice the increasingly angry and urgent growls from my stomach. I knew that I should have started dinner ages ago, so I got up and that's when I realized that I hadn't even taken my cruel, pretty shoes off yet.
Her book is THAT good.
I enthusiastically recommend this book, not only for its stellar writing, but because you will laugh and ache and rejoice with Sarah as she takes you on her journey of EXPERIENCE. Relax, kick off your shoes, and turn yourself over to one hell of a good story.
More! May 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
There is only one word to sum up this book - MORE. Sarah Katherine wants more. More sex, more pleasure from food, more love, more of life. Her unflinching essays pour out of this book and hold nothing back. Emotion, raunch, lust.
I wanted each essay to keep going. I wanted the book to keep going. I devoured this book, and I do believe that is exactly what SK is doing with life.
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