Cooking is seduction. In Cook to Bang, Spencer Walker channels the arousing power of cuisine by coaching novice cooks and seduction artists on how to turn feasting into fucking. Walker reinvents the clichéd "wine and dine" style of dating by bringing it home. The advantages of inviting a woman over for dinner rather than taking her out are many. Cooking provides an experience, is cheap, and positions you in striking distance of your bed—-it shows a date that you can not only bring home the bacon, you can wrap it around a scallop and sear it to perfection.
Like most naive, horny young men, Walker tried taking women to fancy restaurants only for them to bring leftovers home to their booty-calls. He soon discovered, “[t]here is no ratio for the amount of money spent to sexual activity unless you hire a hooker.” Instead of learning guitar or joining a frat in college, cooking became Walker’s gimmick for getting laid. This led to a
This article appears in Jun 10-16, 2010.