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ANATOMY OF DESIGN
It doesn’t take a marketing sexpert to know that sex and food sell—each often
by itself but also in tandem. The unbridled debauchery during the famous eating
scene in Stanley Kubrick’s bawdy film Barry Lyndon is vivid evidence of the
time-honored symbiotic relationship between these two essential life forces,
which when well prepared and executed are feasts for the famished.
Recently, however, pundits have argued that for many of us entering
late middle age, good food is perhaps more sought after than good sex (isn’t
the Food Network, after all, food-lovers’ porn?). And while this claim has yet to
be scientifically substantiated, ...