/ 15 February 2024

The recipe for love

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We’re down for carb-based love languages, so the Japanese might be onto something here… Japan’s oldest bakery Kimuraya has teamed up with tech giant NEC Corp to bake up a storm with their ‘AI Romance Bread’. The artificial intelligence analysed lyrics from love songs to develop 5 key ‘feelings of romance’: the first encounter, the first date, jealousy, heartbreak and mutual love. Then it turned those stages into bread flavours… The first date ”zings with citrus, namely lime and orange peel” – while jealousy tastes like purple sweet potatoes, truffle oil and raisins. And while we are talking about the sweet stuff – specialist proposal planners (yep, it’s a thing…) in Paris have reported a 50% rise in people popping the question in the City of Love. Usher didn’t get that memo, though – after the Super Bowl, he high-tailed it to the chapel to marry his longtime girlfriend Jennifer Goicoechea. Aww…

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