Full Disclosure: Sex, Culture, And Comedy

When many people think of what they want their food to taste like, last on that list is genitals. But that's not the case for Nicky Dyal and Richie Rhombus (I'm guessing these are their burner names but I can neither confirm nor deny this). They're the authors of the new book Eat Me: Recipes for Transcendental Women's Anatomy Tasting (there's a fun acronym buried in the title as well). The book is part recipe guide, part poetic memoir. Richie believes that people need to expand their palettes when it comes to the notion of what female genitals taste like, and this book was an attempt to do that while also bring body-positivity to counter much of the shame impressed upon women about their genitals. In the book, Richie and Nicky recall specific sexual experiences of theirs as told through poetic food metaphors. These accounts are then followed by similarly-toned recipes that are designed to capture the taste experience Richie and Nicky had at that time. I chat with them about these inspirations, how they met, t