"Hedonics"? I'm all across new words when one doesn't exist yet (lolcats!), but what's wrong with "sensual/sensuousness"? It doesn't just refer to sex, it's about what has an impact on the senses.

Still, interesting doco, although I think most chocophiles these days are aware that the beans should be treated with the same kind of reverence and in a similar manner to top-quality coffee.

Just a couple of notes: the seaweed for the stock is actually "kombu" (or "konbu"), and the stock you make with that and the katsuobushi is generally known as "dashi". You can get instant dashi from Japanese and Korean food stores, but it's hard to get the stuff that isn't full of msg (and if you can get kombu and katsuo, you're better off making it that way).

I've never seen kinome for sale anywhere (sometimes it's hard to track these things down in the antipodes) - I wonder if a smidge of Vietnamese mint might be a reasonable substitute.

You can get rice bran from healthfood stores (and pet stores, but I wouldn't use that for human food!)

I'm sure it says something about me in that there wouldn't be room in that thing for the books I have by the side of the bed.

As for the gloves, lube and condoms, though, I think it would be just the thing! (Possibly using a somewhat different decorative style and materials)

Yet another person to comment on the ridiculousness of saying "vegan bread". Sure, some bread can have dairy or even meat (eg. lard) additives - these additives are not what define bread. You might just as well say "dairy ice-cream". Sure, there is non-dairy ice-cream, but it is explicitly qualified as such.

Looks exactly like the brain-booster reward helmet in Sims II. If you leave the thing on all day, it drives your Sim insane. BEWARE!!1!

Well, XUYU, perhaps the target audience isn't jerk businessmen and little girls. Personally, I think it's *dykes*. Like me. I want the (non-pink) kitteh.