I am going to be writing an essay on the role of food within literature, with a focus upon the way in which food is used to represent sexuality and serves as a symbol for physical desire. Something along the lines of Christina Rossetti's the Goblin Market. And Eve eating of the forbidden fruit in Milton's Paradise Lost.
I would be interesting in any suggestions of any works you may know of that might use food as a metaphor of lust, or as a way to convey sexuality. I am open to anything, novels, poems, short stories, perhaps even plays or works of mythologies.
But I would prefer classical works over contemporary.