Product Description

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #689296 in Books
• Published on: 2008-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Lewis's first book, Indecent: How I Make It and Fake It as a Girl for Hire, focused on her career in the sex industry; her latest offering includes some sex stories but marries them to a new theme: eating for pleasure. As Lewis points out, we're so obsessed with needing to lose weight that we eat pseudo-food, which offers little satisfaction. Lewis suggests, instead, frying up some chicken or corncakes for your dinner date, and then taking him or her to bed for some great sex. Lewis can't stop herself from speculating on whether his body fluids or her cooch will taste garlicky, which is in keeping with her penchant for considering a lover's body as a sort of naked lunch. Her explicit rejection of condom use may outrage or upset some readers, but—in the same way that she celebrates bacon, sausage, whale meat and other politically incorrect food—Lewis is not interested in pleasing everyone. While her food discourses—particularly the how-to chapters—are often inspired, and her politics delightfully pleasure-positive, the many raunchy sex passages, though written with a joyful sensuality and a dash of humor, are not for everyone. (May)
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From Booklist
Lewis, a former sex worker, has a lusty appetite for both food and sex. In these short essays, she offers raunchy tales from the front lines of the sex industry along with some of her favorite recipes and experiences in adventurous eating. One piece discusses the happy outcome of her personal ad requesting the services of a female dominatrix, while another offers directions for preparing a romantic dinner of mussels and shallots. She also roams further afield, offering a spirited defense of Britney Spears as a woman condemned for indulging her appetites for bad boys and junk food, an interesting take on the tyranny of body image, and a painfully candid but poignant piece on breaking up with her boyfriend. If the pieces don’t always mesh well—it’s a tad disconcerting to segue from the fetish of pee drinking to the drudgery of office work—Lewis certainly makes for thought-provoking reading. She’s very frank—some would label her crude—about all aspects of sexuality, and she displays an open contempt for her former customers, though not for her former coworkers. Provocative reading. --Joanne Wilkinson

Review
Hanging out with the insatiable Lewis will inspire you to keep eating, loving, and making a mess until you're truly full. That she's struggled to follow her own advice -- "I haven't been laid in a month and I can't afford groceries," she confesses in a concluding chapter -- doesn't make this any less true. Seriously. Someone give this woman a cooking show. -- Bookslut.com

Lewis, a former sex worker, has a lusty appetite for both food and sex. In these short essays, she offers raunchy tales from the front lines of the sex industry along with some of her favorite recipes and experiences in adventurous eating. One piece discusses the happy outcome of her personal ad requesting the services of a female dominatrix, while another offers directions for preparing a romantic dinner of mussels and shallots...Lewis certainly makes for thought-provoking reading. -- Booklist.com

Customer Reviews

How much bacon is enough?
Nearly all of us have been to a restaurant and ordered a breakfast that included bacon at some point in our lives. Bacon is very yummy! The problem is that you usually only get two or three strips along with your meal. So you order another side of bacon and pay a dollar or two extra for another three strips, but is that enough? Sarah Katherine Lewis sets off on the search to find out "How much bacon is 'enough' bacon" in her book "Sex and Bacon: Why I Love Things That Are Very, Very Bad for Me"

As a curvy size 10, Miss Lewis mixes recipes with anecdotal stories of her youth to question why anyone would want to limit their experiences in life to a starvation diet. Every passage inside is a celebration of sensuality, sexuality and freedom to live life as one pleases.

Lewis states about an associate: "When even a crack habit won't make you as thin as a Hollywood starlet or a fashion model, it's time to reevaluate the beauty standards that keep us literally starving ourselves to death." As you read on you realize that perhaps she's referring to more then just the food we eat...

Eventually, Lewis does discover how much bacon is "enough" bacon - but in this case, the reward is both in the journey and the destination. Once you get there, you plot a new course and set off on another adventure. That's what life is all about, isn't it?

incredibly entertaining
The funny parts of this book are literally laugh-out-loud funny. The foody parts are enticing. The gross parts are pretty damn gross. And the sad parts are sad, but tempered by the tenderness and good humor and intelligence of the author. Ms. Lewis transcends her genre(s) in a big way. Like her first book, this one is impossible to put down until it's finished because the author's voice is so compelling. I always want to hear more of what she has to say.

The Sarah Katherine Lewis Quotient
There is something incredibly unique about SKL. In all of my experiences reading, I have never been so completely turned on, disgusted, amused and hungry at the same time. She is a highly intelligent woman with a talent for sucking readers of all different ages and backgrounds, and it is obvious that she knows exactly what she's doing when she sits down at her computer (albeit sticky, of course). I love love love love this book. And, actually, I made the tuna noodle casserole to comfort my heart during a recent break-up and it definitely eased the pain, if only for a little while.

This book will make you hot, it will make you uncomfortable, but most of all, it will make you want more.