some google search said: Cravings--intense and specific longings for one particular food--probably also have more do to with culture and childhood than with a biological urge for missing nutrients. In cross-cultural studies spanning three continents, psychologists Scott Parker of the American University in Washington, D.C., Debra Zellner of New Jersey's Montclair State University, American University student Niveen Kamel and Ana Garriga-Trillo of the Spanish national university UNED demolished the dictum that women universally crave chocolate. While women in Egypt, Spain and the United States do tend to crave sweeter foods than men do, the hankering for chocolate varied. Men and women in Spain were equally likely to crave chocolate. Egyptian women, by contrast, couldn't care less about cocoa--only 6 percent named chocolate as their most favored food. Mostly, they craved savory treats like meat-stuffed eggplant or a typical Egyptian broth-based soup.

more stolen internet ideas said: The correlation between food and sex:
Food and sex are two of the greatest pleasures known to mankind and both appetites need to be fulfilled. They are part of our vital life force and stimulate all of ours senses.

When you cook with love:
You put your heart into cooking or anything, you will undoubtedly do it better. Cooking with love will nourish your relationship physically, mentally and spiritually.

The most romantic dish ever have prepared.
Holiday dishes are always special occasions so that’s when I pull out all the stops. Besides, many restaurants and hotels are fully booked so I prefer to stay at home.

On Halloween I stuffed baby pumpkins with caviar and on Valentines Day I served heart shaped pancakes to my husband in bed and in the evening we had a picnic right in the middle of our bedroom.

Cooking with attitude especially for someone you love.
The love and energy you put into cooking is what you’ll get out of it. Attitude effects cooking just like it effects anything else. Cook with passion and creativity to keep the sizzle and spice in your food and relationship.

Tips for spicing up you love life with food.
Turn eating into a sensual ritual. Begin with ice and use it on your erogenous zones. Everyone has unique areas that can be stimulated to produce sensual and erotic feelings. Rub the ice up and down your lover’s spine, behind their ears and down the neck, around the breasts, on the inside of the thighs and so on. Spray whipping cream on the parts of your lover’s body you most enjoy licking off. Hide a dab of honey on your body and let your lover find it using nothing but their tongue.

The craziest thing a couple can do with food.
A couple told me that they poured flavored gelatin into their shower head, turn on the hot shower and took the most delightful gooey, slippery and sensual shower of their lives. Now that’s what I call creating a memory.

The most romantic foods.
Any food you eat with your fingers can be romantic. Some foods are known aphrodisiacs like oysters because they are filled with zinc which helps increase production of testosterone while others are simply visually stimulating such as strawberries.

Why should a couple experiment with food and sex?
It will enhance the senses, turn sex into adult play, expand their horizon and bring them closer together.

The history of food and its connection with love and sex.
It all started with Adam and Eve and the forbidden fruit. Even today, forbidden fruit always tastes the sweetest. In ancient Rome and Greece eating was always the center of attraction for social events and people ate reclining with Nubian slaves feeding them.

How does a couple get started with food and sex?
Begin by setting the mood for love and stimulating all the senses. For example oranges can make your home smell fresh and inviting, so can apple pie or cinnamon. So find out what your lover’s favorite food aromas are and indulge them. Then share meals together and feed one and other. Even if you’re on a diet you can share an asparagus by one person taking one end of the asparagus in their mouth and the other person taking the other end, then meet in the middle. This can be fun with carrots, celery and pasta too.

An intimate dinner.
It would have a variety of flavors, textures and it would look like a work of art. For example fresh shrimp cocktail presented in beautiful glasses, followed by a light colorful salad sprinkled with sesame seeds, then a juicy, succulent piece of meat or a soft, fluffy fish with designer vegetables and delicious chocolate soufflé to complete the meal. Mmm, it sounds orgasmic, doesn’t it?

Tips for putting the sizzle back into a relationship.
Communication is the key ingredient for a consistently successful relationship and the use of fantasy will spice up anyone’s love life. So I suggest that one person begins telling their partner their fantasy, then the other person has to finish the fantasy. If both of you like it, why not make your fantasy come true. For example, your fantasy may begin like this: "My fantasy is to take a lovely picnic basket filled with fresh fruits, vegetables and an assortment of chocolates and sweets to a beautiful deserted beach somewhere in the tropics. As we lie next to each other basking in the sun, I roll on top of you and give you a long, deep passionate kiss. You take me in your arms and then….Now it’s time for your partner to complete the fantasy and see where it takes you both.

Chocolate and seduction.
Chocolate has always been used as a temptation. Even when you were a child, you were either deprived of it when you didn’t behave or rewarded with it when you were good. There is scientific evidence that chocolate releases the same pleasure hormones in your body that you feel when you’re in love so it’s no wonder that it’s so addictive. Feed your lover chocolate and let the swooning begin.

Erotic Food.
Any food that resembles the sexual organs are visually erotic. Figs and bananas are also naughty looking fruit that can stimulate our most erotic organ, our brain.

Foods that looks, feels, smells and tastes good such a marshmallows are also erotic because they are soft, white and fluffy and melt in your mouth. Actually chocolate covered marshmallows sound even better.

Dripping in ecstasy.
Total achieve total decadence, uninhibited indulgence of your favorite foods combined with wild and wonderful sex, use food on top of your lover not inside them.

What do Americans need to learn from Europeans when it comes to bonding with food?
To take their time and savor each meal. Turn it into a sensual ritual and enjoy the aroma and taste of wine as part of the whole experience.

What’s the best reason for taking food out of the dining room and into the bedroom?
Because the bedroom should be a sacred place just for love. No negativity, no talk of problems. When you take food into your bedroom it automatically becomes seductive so always have your favorite finger foods ready before you start making love. After all, who wants to make love on an empty stomach.

What do men want?
Generally speaking they want fast food and fast sex.

What do women want?
Most women enjoy gourmet food and gourmet sex.

How do you spice up a 30 year relationship with food if the couple has never experimented with food and love before?
Exchange a wish list of three things that you think will heighten a romantic experience for you that includes food. Exchange the lists and make at least one wish come true for you partner. Go on a picnic, feed each other finger foods and turn your sex life into adult play by doing the things you used to do when you were dating.

What’s more important in a relationship…good food, love or sex? Why?
When you have good love, your food will taste good and your sex will be good too because you have a firm foundation for your relationship. Many people overeat because they are not getting enough love or sex so the answer is that we all need a healthy balanced diet in food and in our relationship.
Remember that variety is the spice of life, love and food so why not combine pizza with chocolate or caviar with pasta and be unpredictable to keep your lover happy.

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