Foods of Love
There are countless numbers of so-called aphrodisiacs foods to enhance the act of making love and to inspire thoughts and feelings of love.
Dairy Foods
Including cream, yoghurt, ice cream and cheese are suffused with the nurturing properties of mothering for milk carries these vibrations. Milk-based foods may be imbued with loving energies and given to a desired lover or shared by a couple.
Fruits
Apricots, apples, pears, peaches, sultanas, raisins, persimmons, pomegranates,
melons and cherries are filled with the sexual energies. The tomato or “love apple”
is considered an aphrodisiac.
Vegetables
Because of their phallic shapes, cucumbers and asparagus are believed to promote
thoughts of love and sex when eaten. The Aztec name for avocado is “testicle fruit” and
eating it was said to heighten a man’s sexual drive.
Seafood
Oysters and other shellfish have long been thought of as aphrodisiacs. The goddess Venus
and her loving energies can found within the fruits of the sea.
Sweets
Cakes, sugar, honey, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, gingerbread and shortbread are said
to be filled with the energies of love. Cakes were often baked and imbued with love energies
and given to the desired.
Chocolate is full of sexual hormones and eating vast amounts of this treat is said
to make one fall in love easily.
Presentation
When preparing a meal create the right ambience with a tablecloth and candle in colours
of vivid red or pink, with a central flower arrangement of red and yellow roses, jasmine, lavender, honeysuckle or violets.