A trio of lovely blasts-from-the-past links on this Valentine’s Day …
From the Feb 13, 1997 issue, Leonard Gill’s feature on the book InterCourses: an aphrodisiac cookbook by Memphian Martha Hopkins and her Texas pal Randall Lockridge and featuring blush-inducing photographs by Ben Fink.
From the story:
Hopkins recalls: “Randall and I spent many hours on the phone saying, `Asparagus. Asparagus. What can we do with asparagus?'” (The answer? A topless female model in a hip-hugging micro-mini of asparagus stalks.) For the lead image illustrating chocolate, “the idea was to drizzle chocolate all over the model, but when we did that it looked like we’d stabbed him. So somebody said, `Hey, let’s smear it on him.’ So we hand-smeared it.”
