Guillermo Ferrara - Feed Your Love: 122 Recipes From Around the World to Spice Up Your Love Life

Divine Nectar of Papaya (recipe on ) Translation copyright 2017 by Skyhorse Publishing Original title: COCINA AFRODISACA PARA DIOSES Y DIOSAS Copyright 2007 by Guillermo Ferrara. Published by agreement with Editorial Ocano, S.L. (Barcelona, Spain) All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, whether electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or other kind, without the prior permission in writing of the owners. All inquiries should be addressed to Skyhorse Publishing, 307 West 36th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10018. Skyhorse Publishing books may be purchased in bulk at special discounts for sales promotion, corporate gifts, fund-raising, or educational purposes.

Special editions can also be created to specifications. For details, contact the Special Sales Department, Skyhorse Publishing, 307 West 36th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10018 or . Skyhorse and Skyhorse Publishing are registered trademarks of Skyhorse Publishing, Inc., a Delaware corporation. Visit our website at www.skyhorsepublishing.com. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available on file. US edition cover design: Jane Sheppard Print ISBN: 978-1-63220-490-5 Ebook ISBN: 978-1-63220-745-6 Printed in China Contents Dedication To the spirit of the primal goddess.

And to those gods that are always before the face of those who are awake. Above all, to Dionysus, Apollo, and Shiva. And especially to the goddess Kali, Who protects me and grants my desires. To those women who radiate divinity with their simple presence. To those who are not bound by limiting beliefs and mechanical traditions, But are guided by the connection of the human heart with the divine Through direct knowing. To those who know there is but one, nameless God/Goddess Of myriad forms, as a tree has but one trunk But gives forth many branches and many fruits.

From my Buddha Nature. My Thanks To those who taught me to cook with love and finesse: my mother Carmen, Mariela, Eliana, and Heidie. Goddesses of the arts of love and the kitchen. Introduction With lifes first breath a human being draws in vitalizing energy. This air is our first food and mothers milk is our second. Later on come the foods lovingly prepared by mother.

In my country, Argentina, family meals are very important, a daily celebration based on dishes made with great care and devotion, dishes which offer a delight of different tastes and textures. The pace of life today, however, has dealt us a bad hand. We always eat away from home, a bad habit and serious emotional deprivation which turns the magic of dining into an act of mere survival. In ancient times, dining was synonymous with festal thanksgiving to Earth/Gaia for giving us nurture. Nowadays, we eat thinking about business, our job, sports, etc. We no longer savor our food, we just go through the process of eating, ever distracted by thousands of things.

Very old and wise Eastern cultural traditions, such as yoga, advise us to chew thoroughly so that the digestive enzymes can properly initiate digestion. But today the majority of us end up gulping down our food, almost without chewing, simply to satisfy the primal animal instinct of survival. Disappearing, too, is the custom of inviting friends and family over to dine in our homes. Instead, we make reservations at a restaurant. Sure, you dont have to wash the dishes or be bothered with cooking or worry about how your house looks, but you are thus deprived of the joy of cooking for your loved ones and thereby experiencing a ritual of celebration which allows you to offer your love and mirth via your personal preparation of the meal. With this book I invite all of you to enjoy celebratory cooking and regain the pleasures of dining and the inner art of expressing your soul through cuisine.

The act of cooking is a form of play, something enjoyable, and a celebration. I, myself, begin with a cup of wine in hand, listening to Greek musicdynamic sirtaki dancingor the Three Tenors or Demis Roussor. And believe me, it makes my spirit soar. It is a divine gift. To experience the culinary event unfolding joyfully is priceless. You awaken your senses.

It is a canvas painted in colors and flavors and smells that intoxicate and carry you aloft to the inspired realization that life is something to celebrate and not mere drudgery. Lifes focus changes when you cook. You are arousing your senses with music, drinking, tastes, textures, aromas, colors, combinations, all beckoning you to a world of delight. Ive always held that cooking is one of the most surefire ways of showing ones love. It is a life-giving act. A scientist friend of mine once said that love is gestated in the kitchen.

A kitchen has its own special atmosphere that radiates intimacy, as if it were a kind of womb where a lovingly prepared meal comes to full term. I have another friend who never has anything in his refrigerator. You can tell a lot about a person in numerous ways: body language (it never lies), with diagnostic tests, by their thinking, facial expressions, etc., but also by what they have in their icebox and how they feed themselves. As I said earlier, in this book I invite you to engage in the spiritual aspect of cooking in a fun, healthy, and invigorating way. Even just cooking up a romantic supper with the object of seducing your partner, prepared in a sublime ambience of candles, music, and aromas that open the heart, will provide a beautiful pretext for showing your love, without having to say a word, but simply with dishes that can remove any emotional barriers between you and your companion. All of the recipes presented here originate from my mother, intimate companions, travels through Greece, Mexico, and India, as well as the expert help of my editor.

To cook is to celebrate, to delight, and to enjoy. It is a matter of sharing our joy, our caring, and our affection in the guise of a good meal. It is exactly in this way that our grandmothers and mothers would add that extra dose of love that so well nourished not only our bodies, but our hearts as well. Lets get away from fast foods, pizza, and ready-to-eat meals. Wise sustenance promotes balance and harmony. Let us allow food to be a way of thanksgiving and a tribute to those greater forces that enliven us, those forces that we dont always recognize due to the blindness of our fossilized beliefs.

If you let them, these forces will totally open to you, day by day. They represent the fragrance of your experience and the savoring of the most important dish you could ever cook: your own life. Guillermo Ferrara Barcelona Foods That Improve Your Sexual Vitality Our sexual vitality depends on many factors, from the balance of our sexual hormones to our emotional state, or possible health problems, just to mention three of the most important. Food is another of those aspects that stand out regarding sexual health; not just those foods that we consume, but also the nutritional standard we maintain. These will have a major effect on our enjoyment and betterment of sex. It is not advisable, for example, to overeat or skip any food: this will only result in feeling more fatigued or less motivated sexually.