Valentine's AND 98% Full Moon Today
The moon is nothing
But a circumambulating aphrodisiac
Divinely subsidized to provoke the world
Into a rising birth-rate.
--from "A Sleep of Prisoners" by Christopher Fry
List of culinary aphrodisiacs includes: peaches, chocolate, chili peppers, asparagus, oysters, mussles, pine nuts, bananas, ginkgo, caviar, truffles, onions, cucumbers, wild yams, spanish fly, beans, betel nuts, celery, coco-de-mer, grapes, leeks, peas, radishes, quince, walnuts, cloves mixed with honey and milk, nutmeg [in very small doses, due to its hallucinogenic properties], anchovies, asafetida, cardamom, licorice, mint, pepper, rosemary, saffron, salt, thyme, and vanilla.
Happy Valentine's Day, everyone.