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Truffles rolled in mint and cocoa powder

Strawberry panna cotta

I can think of a handful off the top of my head: Pomegranate, bananas, celery (for females), peach (more for the vitamins & minerals than the shape), herbs -- basil, black pepper, cloves, ginger, cardamom...the list goes on.

I find that eating alone allows me to fully employ my five senses in a way I could not if I was eating with friends and focused on side conversations. There's something vaguely secret agent-like in hiding behind a book (remember Wei Tang in Lust, Caution?). I like to dig into a Haruki Murakami or Hunter S. Thompson. Now I haven't had the guts yet to do this, but I wonder what reactions I would get if I opened up a copy of, say, The Kama Sutra (awk...).