MadRabbit
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Based on what I gathered from speed reading, the conclusion was that eating chocolate caused "pleasurable feeling" via chemical effect on the brain. While chocolate certain does effect the pleasure part of the brain (I am not too good at the technical stuff, but in other articles I have read it compared the effects of choclate with the effects of heroin), that has nothing to do with stimulating romantic feelings and encouraging the sex drive. I've been in a couple of discussions with chefs over whether there is an actual physical and chemical effect on the body from consuming foods such as champagne, oysters, and choclate which have been historically associated as aphrosdiasiacs or whether the effect is a placebo from the power of suggestion from centuries of association. To my knowledge, there is no proof either way, but personally I tend to go with the second. Learned emotional association is one the most important things to take into consideration when composing a menu for an event and why, despite 2000 years of culinary history and advancement, chefs rarely strive too far from the traditional. Strawberry shortcake on Fourth of July, beef stew in the winter, hot dogs on the grill in the summer, turkey, cranberry sauce and mashed potatoes on Thanksgiving. Gazpacho doesn't taste any different on a hot summer day then it does on a cold winter day, but years of suggestion and association trigger more powerful feelings when we consume the chilled soup on a hot, humid, summer day. I can come up with tons of creative foods, but none would probably have the erotic emotional impact as cherries, choclate, caviar, oysters, and champagne. Why? Because we associate these things with "erotic" and "romantic" and thus they have that impact that eating corned beef and cabbage off your lover's stomach would lack. Sorry for the hijack, but once I start talking about food, it's hard for me to stop lol.
< Message edited by MadRabbit -- 5/6/2008 10:53:38 AM >
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