Why Food Is Like Freaky Sex

I get emails and social media messages from readers and listeners once in a while.

Most of them are pretty benign. “How do I make braciole?” “How do I make pizza?” Very occasionally, I get some really interesting comments. “Sometimes your recipes sound erotic.”

Really?

Food Network is really the hallmark of that type of broadcasting, in my opinion, but maybe there’s such an association between the basic needs of food and sex that people get confused or the lines get blurred. In the wayback machine, there was even a segment on Seinfeld about the urges of food and sex:

Here’s the segment from Food Nation Radio Network that received a few savory 😉 comments:

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Elizabeth Dougherty has been cooking and writing about food intensively for more than ten years. She is the fourth generation of chefs and gourmet grocers in her family with her mother, Francesca Esposito and grandmother, Carmella being major influences in her early cooking years. As a teenager, her family sent her to Europe where she became focused on French and Italian cuisine. She survived a year and half of culinary tutelage under a maniacal Swiss-German chef and is a graduate of NYIT, Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor’s degree in Hospitality, Business and Labor Relations. Food Nation Radio has won two news awards for content. Broadcasting LIVE each week, nationwide, on FoodNationRadio.com and stations around the country.

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