Real Chefs Catch Fish With Their Bare Hands

Perusing Eat Me Daily's post about the new cookbook from "Top Chef" alum Fabio Viviani, I was struck by the similarity of one of the book's images to a photo from another chef cookbook.

The above image of Ludovic Lefebvre (left) from his cookbook Crave is nearly the same as that of Viviani (right) in his new book: badass chef dude wades into the sea in his jeans and seemingly pulls two giant fish out of the water with nothing but his hands. We don't need no stinking fishing poles!

Back in 2005, Leslie Brenner swooned over the photo of Lefebvre in the pages of the Los Angeles Times: "Look at him, emerging from the surf like a chef-Adonis, kelp fairly dangling from his biceps. He caught those big fish with his bare hands!"

So, will this mean that the barehanded fishing shot will become de rigeur for the up-and-coming celebrity chef, or have Viviani and Lefebvre simply upped the ante to something even more absurdly over-the-top?

Breastaurants Go Mobile

Watch out, Hooters. At L.A.'s Baby's Badass Burgers mobile food truck, "female employees will wear itsy-bitsy boy shorts while serving up burgers like the Cougar (aged beef and black truffles) or the Hot Chick (buffalo chicken with bleu cheese)." Via coldmud.

On Sex and Graham Crackers

Did you know that Graham Crackers were originally invented to curb sexual desire?

Gael Greene on Food, Social Media, and Sex

"A Yelp is not like an orgasmic moan, or maybe to some it is. As for the compulsion to Tweet. Tweeting does not lead to kissing like dancing did. Whatever became of infidelity in the afternoon—would one Tweet it afterward with a euphemism or a rating?"

Less Meat, More Flesh

PETA announces the winners of its 2009 "Sexiest Vegetarians Next Door."

Hot or Not: Padma Lakshmi and a Carl's Jr. Burger?

In this new commercial for the fast food chain Carl's Jr., "Top Chef" host Padma Lakshmi brings new meaning to the term food porn as she eats a hamburger like she's kissing Leonardo DiCaprio, shows off a considerable degree of tongue dexterity at cleaning burger grease off her wrist, and spills a little special sauce on her lower leg.

Sexy? Absurd? Both?

Via The Atlantic.

Of Sex and Syrah

According to a new study, red wine has been found to "increase the female libido."

Researchers at the Santa Maria Nuova Hospital in Florence investigated 789 Italian women between the ages of 18 and 50, and found that consuming one to two glasses of red wine a day increases female sexual desire.

Decanter.com reports: "Drinking red wine not only helps to release inhibitions, but also has a direct effect on sexual activity. Women who drink one to two glasses of wine a day were found to be more sexually active than those who abstain."

Mario Batali on Food and Sex

"There's a couple of ways that you make someone happy by putting something inside of them, and that's food and that's sex."