Jiggs will reveal his answer to Viagra at his 20-day-long food festival -- the Festival of Avadh -- which will be held at Hotel Oberoi's Khandhar restaurant from July 13.

The Lucknowi food, he and his team claim, will have certain ingredients which will pep up your sexual life. ``I have always had a very focused approach to food and have been using Ayurveda methods in my cooking. You need to go back 6,000 years to create food for the future,'' Jiggs feels.

According to him, some of the ancient writings prove that food is also a science. ``According to our Hindu customs, there is special food you must eat before you get married, and a certain kind of food you should eat after the consummation of marriage. There are soundreasons for this. I've looked at every aspect of food, including the effect it has on us,'' the chef says.

This `quest of food for well-being,' as Jiggs calls it, took him to Lucknow, where he met Hakeem Safdar Nawab, Hakeem Dulare and the family of the late vaidya Krishna Chandra Pant.

From them, he learnt that in traditional Indian philosophy, tonics, elixirs and aphrodisiacs come under the same section. ``Special ingredients from this section can give one a sense of well-being and ecstasy. It is not an instant fix, but incorporating special items in your food can in the long term help cure impotency,'' he says.

Among the hidden extras in his Lucknowi food that will perk you up are powdered pearls, powdered fossils and certain types of saffron. To make this food tasty, he will be using complementary spices such as `Gulurahal,' a type of flower, and `Zarraqoosh,' a type of grass. Also mixed will be `Musq-e-dana,' which will emanate the smell of musk, a well-known aphrodisiac. ``We're anticipating quitea rush,'' Jiggs says, adding women need not worry, because his food would `appeal equally' to them.