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The Lover’s Cookbook

UK Publisher: Square Peg / Random House

This book offers a unique culinary slant on dinner à deux with fun and adventurous recipes that will help love to blossom, tease palates and arouse the senses … and make all the difference between a firecracker of an evening and a damp squib:

Something to Slurp on – get the juices flowing with a Basil Martini or a Bloody Mary with Clam Juice;
Nibbles and Tit-bits – get down to some fun foreplay with Spiced Honey Almonds or Caviar Blini;
Shapely Veg – get forking Asparagus with White Crab Meat or Pommes Sarladaises with Truffles;
Smooth and Slippery – serve Milton’s Moules or Salmon Tikka Skewers with Dill and Pomegranate Raita for a boost in the bedroom;
Flesh – wrap your mouth around Pot-roast Haunch of Venison and Beef Fillet, Ceps and Marsala Sauce;
The Spice of Life – get hot and spicy with Saffron Roast Chicken or Paneer Chilli;
Getting Fruity – with Pineapple and Pork Curry or Poached Quince with Mascarpone and Gorgonzola Cream;
Sweet Bits – down and dirty desserts, from Chocolate Chilli Fondant to Raspberry Rose Pudding.

Read on and let Milton Crawford share his secret potions of love.

Amateur chef, professional boozer, poet, traveller and essayist, Milton Crawford is also a fantastic drinker. He states that 'seven days...