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Is polenta an aphrodisiac? The hard truth: why the Italian dish is loved by mice and men
Origins series
The traditional Italian dish is a semi-liquid cornmeal mush that doesn’t look appealing, but wives know that it is a potent sex booster and a ‘reproduction’ culinary secret
Updated: 10:00am, 29 Nov, 2019
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Dating back to Ancient Rome and literally meaning ‘ugly blood’ in Italian, innuendo-inducing sanguinaccio is a huge salami-shaped tube of meat or chocolate, made with pig blood and believed to be a powerful aphrodisiac
Updated: 10:00am, 19 Nov, 2019
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