NOWNESS | A Week of Culinary Seductions from 'Profana: The Ecstasy of Chocolate' to Gladiator Grape Eating

NOWNESS is running a gastronomy feast this week, making a visual feast of culinary extravaganzas by artists, chefs, actors and numerous creatives. The contrast between’s Monday’s Margot Henderson: Burning Bush and Tuesday’s Takeru Kobayashi: Hunger got us thinking about gender and food. Gender and governing. Gender and competition. Winner take all — even Nathans hot dogs. But I digress! Margot Henderson may not look like a seductress, but her film sizzles.

By contrast, eating grapes becomes the work of a gladiator!

Yesterday NOWNESS debuted ‘Profana: The Ecstasy of Chocolate’ , a bobbing heads panoply of sexy models exploring the sensuality and extravagance of cocoa. (Note, luscious lips only smack on NOWNESS). Siblings Santiago and Mauricio Sierra created the sexy indulgences “with the help of fashion’s freshest faces, captured in furtive moments of ecstasy. Yet our affair with the bittersweet delicacy isn’t all that mysterious in light of its chemical powers of seduction: the cocoa bean contains organically stimulating substances, such as the euphoric anandamide, the natural aphrodisiac arginine, and tryptophan, a proven antidepressant.”