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A Special Event!
Get ready to have an epiphany about your life!
We can't wait to share this book with you.
Fran and I are so excited about this event and we hope you will be too! Please read our reviews, check out her website, call and
reserve a book and come to this fantastic event! Food (bacon, chocolate and other deliciousness) and wine to complement the celebration of the wonderfulness of all of us.
 Sex and Bacon
Why I Love Things That Are Very, Very Bad
For Me
Sarah Katherine Lewis
Seal Press $14.95
August 23rd beginning about 5:30 or so.
She's local, and a TOTAL hoot. Sarah's bi-
sexual, a former sex worker who is a foodie. I
haven't laughed out loud so often thru a book.
Here is a woman who absolutely knows what she likes and doesn't like. Her descriptions of human suffering, frailty, joy and sensual
desire are spot on. Oh, and did I mention the recipes? Each one is a personal ode to desire, food or otherwise. They are often broken
down by whether you are making this dish in order to bed someone or just making it for yourself.
She will talk you thru how to diet by eating real food passionately,
and never forgetting to use real fat - butter or bacon grease. How to eat to sustain yourself thru depression, poverty and utter joy.
"The thing is, real women are supposed to be woman-shaped.
Our thighs are supposed to touch. We're at our best when we're healthy, strong, soft, and libidinous. We're at our most f#$^%able when we're well- fed and sleek, not when we're dry as toast and out
of our minds with hunger. So if you want to get a little more toned, remember - everything you put in your mouth should bring you pleasure and feed your beautiful curves, whether it's lard-fried
chicken or an abstemious bite of salad. Being hungry and miserable is never okay. Hunger makes women mean and dumb and Lord knows we need all our wits about us just to exist in this
world as thinking, feeling, art-creating women. If we're too hungry to think, we're too hungry to f*&^ shit up. If we're too hungry to f#$^ shit up, we're collaborating with the enemy."
She is able to describe the act of being human in the most detailed, clear, unflinching language imaginable, and then makes you laugh at yourself for being so utterly....human.
You absolutely have to read this book. She rocks the world.
- Gretchen
I really can't add a whole lot more to what Gretchen's said. I
absolutely cannot WAIT to meet Sarah, to get her to tell some of the stories that aren't in the book, and to laugh. It's going to happen. I promise. You'll want to be here.
Unless. Let me seriously add this. Unless you're offended by frank, adult language, honest descriptions of what goes on in the sex trade
world, how food and sex intersect to make life interesting. Then you really truly won't enjoy it. You know all those four-letter-words that
we're not supposed to use in polite conversation? Yeah, those are all going to be present and plentiful. But in a joyous, fun-filled way. No anger allowed at this event!
Oh, and no one under 21 admitted. Sorry!
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