The love of food and the food of love - all mixed together in Isabel Allende's inimitable sensuous style.

A book Bacchus would have been proud of - bawdy, lurid, unfettered, Rabelaisian fun.

This book of recipes, sensuous stories, aphrodisiacs and lovers' spells is an irresistible fusion of Allende's favourite things.

Lavishly illustrated, this fascinating personal guide to all things erotic is an international history of seduction through food; ancient and modern stories and poems about sex and eating; titillating recipes and advice.

Learn how to organize an orgy.

Read the funniest, nastiest recipes you'll ever see.

Enjoy a pleasure-seeker's handbook; an epicurean's manifesto.

Ai No Corrida for the reader.