Article: All loved up.

SO what do you order for that romantic candle-lit dinner on St Valentine's day? Well you could start with oysters of course the best known aphrodisiac of all.

While she toys with a prawn cocktail he who pays the bill should throw caution to the winds and order 50 of them. According to the Observer Book of Food that's the number that Casanova used to knock off for breakfast and they kept him going all day to the delight of the women in his life, said to be several thousand.

Why not keep up the momentum with a decent helping of caviar, if you can afford it that is. According to the previously mentioned tome Catherine the Great used to consume this ...

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