Goan chef dishes out food-for-sex tips Venkatesan Vembu
Lessons in 'Khana Sutra' - the art of aphrodisiac cooking - in demand ahead of Valentine's Day
HONG KONG: Take a Goan chef with a passionate interest in food culture. Add a pinch of Kama Sutra wisdom. Toss in a sprinkling of Chinese and Western expatriates in Hong Kong looking to spice up their life. Sex it up a bit. Serve hot for Valentine's.
That's Zubin D'Souza's surefire recipe to get you and your significant other all steamed up and pawing the ground starting this Valentine's Day. This Goan chef from Mumbai, who has extensively researched food cultures in India and across Europe and Africa, is coming out later this year with a book on aphrodisiac cooking, called Khana Sutra.
Currently in Hong Kong, where he works as an executive chef at HK Dining, D'Souza is offering cooking classes on recipes derived from his research of the Kama Sutra and other food-for-sex treatises from all over the world, and from his interactions with chefs in royal kitchens.
"The Indian culture of aphrodisiac cooking," D'Souza told DNA, "came about from the research done by yesterday's kings to restore population imbalances. Whenever populations dwindled as a result of epidemics or calamities or war, these recipes from the royal chefs were passed on to the people in order to increase the population."
Then, says D'Souza, there are the traditional recipes, handed down from mother to daughter, when she left home after marriage. "They were intended to 'keep the man faithful'." Indian aphrodisiacs could be classified under two heads: those that enhanced libido and those that increased virility.
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