City Grit and I offer a Steamy Dinner Reading October 18

          Join me for a racy dinner reading from my best selling novel "Blue Skies, No Candy" at City Grit’s Culinary Salon 7:30 Thursday October 18.  If you only know me as New York City’s “mouth to trust”, first as New York magazine’s restaurant critic of 30 years, then as caustic judge on Top Chef Masters, and now as the candid tongue behind “The Insatiable Critic,” you’ll discover the dual meaning of delicious excess.

          Erotica from a restaurant critic?  Of course. The same five senses –eyes, ears, nose, fingertips and taste buds – that deliver the sensuous joy of great eating tell you how it looks, smells, sounds and tastes in bed (or on the floor, the desk, or the back seat of the taxi.)

In the truffle fields of France 1976: As "Delicious Sex" advises, sex before dinner. 

          Readers may have been shocked in 1976 when “Blue Skies, No Candy” got trounced by male reviewers, then embraced by women, and its zipper ad was banned from the subway. An erotic breakthrough, it went on to sell a million copies in paperback and become an underground classic.

          The Toronto Globe described Blue Skies as “a caviar and foie gras freefall of uninhibited, delicious and tantalizing sex.” Betty Friedan wrote, "It's new and fun to read an erotic book written by a woman about a woman who takes extra-ordinary joy in sex." Vogue called it, "Funny, scarifyingly witty..." and novelist Ruth Harris said, "I think of Greene as a contemporary Colette."
 

          For a generation that has made the “Fifty Shades of Grey” trilogy bigger than Harry Potter, Fifty Shades of Blue Skies will make a tasty evening, especially paired with four courses of classic “aphrodisiacs”  prepared by Sarah Simmons, Food and Wine’s Home Cook superstar and City Grit’s talent in the kitchen.

          The seductive menu and my readings from Blue Skies as well as “Delicious Sex, A Guide for Women and Men Who Want to Love them Better” can be booked now on line for $65 including tax, tip and a gift download of either book.  (Wines available for purchase.)

Warner Books paperback 1978- Notice the price is just $2.50.

          In this cool new era when both men and women come to bed in t-shirts with their notebooks and cell phones, “Delicious Sex” seems more needed than ever.

When: Thursday, October 18 at 7:30 pm 
Where: 38 Prince (between Mott and Mulberry) 
Price: $65, wine available for purchase

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