Cook Your Date Into Bed: A Collection of Recipes and Stories from

Frustrated at the cheesy pile of utter toss usually written about the relationship between food and romance, Helen Graves decided to do something about it. Cook Your Date Into bed is an anti-cliche cynical sideways glance at the genre backed up by food and drink recipes that will make you look totally slick with minimal effort. Every situation is covered, from the classic evening dinner date scenario to the morning after (wahey!), the picnic date, the cinema date, right through to the post pub munchies. There is a lot of bitching about silly assumptions along the way, like the concept of aphrodisiac foods, tirelessly rolled out every year around Valentine s day, the pros and cons of the various dating scenarios and some horror stories involving food and dating, collected from Graves (brave) friends. When it comes down to it, most situations can be dealt with via the introduction of food and or booze, and dating is no different. So let us begin...