Fork Me, Spoon Me: Amy Reiley is an Aphrodisiac
An off the charts aphrodisiac advocate, Amy Reiley is one of the articulate women in food and wine. In August 2004, she became the second American to earn the title Master of Gastronomy awarded by France’s culinary temple, Le Cordon Bleu. While at Cordon Bleu, Amy achieved a level of fame for her work in culinary aphrodisiacs. In 2006, Amy released her seminal book, Fork Me, Spoon Me: The Sensual Cookbook, confirming her status as America’s foremost aphrodisiac food authority. Filling a niche in the cookbook market, demand resulted in the book’s second edition less than two years later.
It seems I’m always looking for food and wine books that jump out at me as original. I find very few but when I stumbled across Fork Me, Spoon Me at Barnes and Nobles, I knew I had found my newest tool for my cooking passion.
Amy’s culinary knowledge is not restricted to simply aphrodisiac foods. I believe it was in June, 2005, she was singled out as one of the five best female wine professionals in the world of the year by France’s Wine Women awards. As an internationally recognized journalist, I learned that she shared her food and wine knowledge in such publications as Variety, Gault Millau; Daily Candy and Las Vegas magazine. She also writes a syndicated column, Woman on Wine, and serves on The Tasting Panel, (formerly of Bon Appetit magazine). This is some cool stuff.
