There's enough seafood here to satisfy even the hungriest of ocean predators. more ›

As a follow up to our suggestion that you cook at home for Valentine’s Day this year, we want to offer you some titillating recipes. We hope they will get your engines running. Mussels are said to be a natural aphrodisiac - in mythology, Aphrodite comes from the sea, so shellfish are naturally sexy, right? It’s actually more than that. Mussels contain amino acids that trigger increased levels of sex hormones, which make you want to be more sexually active. Schwing! What are we waiting for? more ›

After a short hiatus, we're back in the kitchen! This week, we've cooked up a light, tasty summer supper which could serve as a main course (served alongside a salad and a big loaf of bread) or an appetizer served by itself. This is one of our favorite dishes, because it allows us to deceive our friends. It looks so fancy and tastes so fancy, but it is sinfully easy to make. The whole costs about $8, even if you buy the mussels at Whole Foods - they sell for between $4-5 a pound. It has a fancy French (or Belgian, depending on who you believe) name, which gives you an instant air of snobbery. Plus, you can use some of that dead bottle of white wine that's been sitting in your fridge for a month. more ›

There's "food porn" (we prefer the term "culinary erotica") and then there's just straight-up smut. Laurent Gras' blog for L2O is possibly the best example of the former. One of the attractions of his and other chefs' blogs is that it pulls back the curtain to reveal that the Wizard is merely a man, albeit a very driven one. It's also been said that imitation is also the sincerest form of flattery. more ›