The Mouthwatering Story Behind Man Eater

As a 20-something single woman, I had an insatiable appetite for men.

If you are what you eat—or who you eat it with—I was binging on beefcake of the tall, dark, and handsome variety. Soon my standards plummeted so low that men were simply meal tickets. If I continued to rely on men for my soul food, I was bound to starve.

I vowed to do things differently in the dating department. I’d let men approach me, I’d play hard-to-get, I’d follow The Rules.

Then I met Puck, a sports medicine specialist, seafood aficionado, and sex-pert all rolled into one.

The Canadian cutie encouraged me to experiment. He taught me that eating wasn’t only for nourishment; it was a carnal, visceral, sensual experience. With the right man, the right ingredients, and the right ambiance, eating could be more satisfying than sex—unless it was sex with Puck.

You know the drill: Boy meets Girl. Girl falls in love with a fantasy. Reality hits and relationship implodes. Puck filled me up—then he broke my heart.

Every woman has dated—and been dumped by—a Puck. And every woman has her own way to cope with the loss of love. Some knit. Some meditate. Some journal. Some drink.

I took refuge in the kitchen. My goal: to recreate the meals I shared with Puck and heal my heart in the process.

As I baked and broiled my way through my former flame’s favorite dishes, I relived my tumultuous affair with Puck. I cooked, I ate, I wrote, weaving the recipes with the romantic anecdotes that defined our relationship.

Other memorable men and the meals I shared with them came to mind. Soon I had a feast for every man I’d ever fallen for! As I conquered more and more complex recipes, I reclaimed my self-esteem. As each dish came to fruition, so did the healing. Cooking was my cure for heartache.

In 2009, I launched http://www.maneaterbook.com/, a website for foodies, musicheads, and infatuation junkies such as myself.  The blog section of that website soon took on a life of its own.  While I planned to keep the content to events that occurred in the past, art and life eventually collided.  I was blogging about my lovers only hours after leaving their beds!  It was an exhilarating, yet exhausting, way to live. 

After more than a year of trying to juggle my dating, writing, and personal lives, I found a publisher for the original Man Eater manuscript and embarked on a relationship worth keeping quiet about.  You can now order Man Eater: Seductive Stories & Mouthwatering Meals on: Amazon.com!

The material on this site is the best of what transpired on the Man Eater blog while the e-book found a publisher.  I hope you enjoy traveling this journey with me.  While Man Eater has evolved oodles since the very first post, my mission is still the same:  to bring you the peak of pleasures, be it carnal, oral, aural or otherwise!  Eat your heart out, readers!

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