Food to Love and Live By

• Heart-Healthy Foods »
• Help the one you love live longer with these delicious and healthy recipes, like Broken Lasagna with Walnut Pesto and Pistachio Pavlovas with Blood Orange Sorbet.

• Sexy Foods
• Twenty irresistible dishes, including a luxurious lobster salad, oysters, baked figs and chocolate soufflé tarts.

Wonderfully juicy lamb loin chops are a delicious splurge and go perfectly with roasted potatoes. Swirled marble fudge brownies are as beautiful as they are incredibly decadent.

• Camembert Baked in its Box
• Lamb Chops with Fennel Relish »
• Orecchiette with grape tomatoes or roasted potatoes
• Marble Fudge Brownies

This perfect romantic menu starts with a down-to-earth and boldly flavored seared rib steak and finishes with a supereasy, velvety no-bake pudding.

• Goat Cheese Soufflé with Thyme
• Seared Rib Steak with Arugula
• Mashed potatoes and roasted tomatoes
• No-Bake Chocolate Custard

Baked sea bass is the center of this dazzling menu that includes truffle oil drizzled over a salad of fennel and plump seared scallops, and a fantastic, silky version of crème brûlée.

• Chez es Saada’s Palmyra
• Fennel, Mushroom and Arugula Salad with Seared Scallops
• Baked Sea Bass with Warm Tomato Vinaigrette »
• Boiled new potatoes or steamed rice
• Citrus Crema Catalana

This ultra-romantic meal stars easy, buttery-lemony mussels and tender, rose-colored veal and finishes with a deliciously cloudlike pear soufflé.

• Mussels a la Cagouille
• Roasted Veal Chops with Mushrooms and Madeira
• Orzo and Buttered Spinach
• Pear Soufflés »

Ros’ Champagnes and sparkling wines range in color from pale orange to luminescent pink, from delicate to forceful and almost brawny in flavor, and from fairly affordable to mighty expensive.

More structured and emphatic than traditional Champagnes, these rosé Champagnes and sparkling wines are senior wine editor Ray Isle’s favorites.

Plus: Video: How to Saber a Bottle

The comforts and sensory pleasures we derive from food and love are deliciously similar. So it’s not that surprising that many chefs who work together—in some of America’s top restaurants—are partners outside of the kitchen as well as inside.

Plus: Slideshow of culinary duos describing their most romantic meals.