“The newer generation is interested in fun, kitschy, slapstick stuff.” These days, she adds, vintage cookbooks of this nature can go for up to $100 in her online shop, almost double what she could sell them for a few years ago.

“Every time I put one up it sells really quick,” says Young. A couple of years ago, Lizzy Young, a vintage cookbook dealer based in Newport, Rhode Island, began to notice a growing market for erotic cookbooks - books that typically employ naughty visuals and heavily entendred recipes in the service of seduction through culinary prowess.