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From: broder@magic.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.singles,net.cooks
Subject: Re: My Favorite Subject...
Message-ID: <179@magic.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 28-Nov-85 01:37:17 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 28 01:37:17 1985
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Reply-To: broder@magic.UUCP (Andrei Broder)
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In article <395@whuts.UUCP> amc@whuts.UUCP (Andy Cohill's friend) writes:
>All I can say is, these people obsessed with what to have for dinner
>must not have very good sex lives...
>
>Barbara Wagner  (a friend of Andy's)
>                (just on the net for the day...)
>                

On the contrary, I claim that anyone who doesn't enjoy the
pleasures, the variety and the refinements of good dining (which
mostly involves taste and smell, but also touch, sight, and
imagination) will probably not show much interest and sophistication
in the pursuit of sensuous pleasures of any sort.

For a well known counter example to B.W.'s statement, Casanova's
memoirs contain a great deal of gastronomical reminiscences.  Mimi
Sheraton says ``According to my rough calculations, it took an
average of four meals to bed down any wench he [Casanova] fancied,
and every campaign included an assortment of big dinners and little
suppers (Roquefort and Chambertin were his favorites after midnight),
intimate luncheons and carefully planned breakfasts, these last
served usually in the lady's bedroom, with the lady herself popped up
in bed.''

- Andrei