TN Read-Along #15: Suffering Succotash
“What do you mean raisins ‘don’t totally suck,’ Jacques?”
Just a reminder that this is a couple weeks away! The freebies have gone out, so if you still need a copy, try one of the links below!
I’m delighted to announce that our next Read-Along book is Suffering Succotash: A Picky Eater’s Quest to Understand Why We Hate the Foods We Hate. Said quest was undertaken by the co-godmother of the snackets here on TN and at Grub Report — Keckler, a.k.a. Stephanie Lucianovic. She’s shown above, looking quite somber indeed as she buttonholes Jacques Pepin in the KQED stew room — and you can buttonhole her yourselves, during a live chat! Keckler will answer your questions about cilantro, stinky cheese, your kookbag ex-boyfriend who would only eat white foods, and much more, right here on TN: Thursday July 26, 8:30 PM ET!
The physical book “drops” next week, but you can Kindle it already at the link above (I believe) (correction: as of this writing it’s still a Kindle pre-order) — and we have four copies to give away! Just leave a comment below saying that you’d like a free copy (make sure your email works, please!), and we’ll get copies out to you next week!
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Oooh, that sounds right up my alley! As a foodie, formerly very picky eater, and new mom about to start feeding solids, I have been reading a lot of articles on this topic. One way or another, I will have to read this!
I would love a free copy! That sounds like a fascinating book.
I would love to have a free copy. Down with raisins!
YAY! I don’t need a free copy, as I pre-ordered one of my own months ago, but as a picky-about-texture eater, I’m super excited to read the book and chat with the Nation about it.
The book sounds great! I’d love a free copy.
This sounds great. Am I disqualified if I like raisins, and all of their delicious dried fruit counterparts?
Ooh, I’d love a copy! Because raisins are evil.
Oh, sounds interesting! As someone who has gotten over a lot of my food dislikes from a very picky childhood/adolescence, I’d love to know what was really at work.
Yay! Spindle the Kindle will gobble a copy on July 3, meaning I’ll have fresh reads for holiday pool time. Sweet! (Sour? Bitter? Salty?)
I’m also a pre-orderer and I’m so anxiously awaiting delivery of this book and Pamie’s book that I may behave in an embarrassing fashion when the FedEx person finally brings them.
Sounds interesting! And I actually have time to read this summer! Any free copies left?
Sounds super interesting! I’d love a copy
I’ve been looking forward to reading this, as a picky eater who was assured I’d “grow out of it.” (At 33, I have incredibly not grown out of it and am sort of losing hope. In the meantime, I love my carbs-and-cheese-based lifestyle.) So I would love a free copy, but I will totally be kindle-ing this one up otherwise. Yay!
I’d love a free copy! I’m very interested in this book.
Up with raisins, down with hamburger! I’d love a copy!
I’d love a copy! I was an insanely picky eater as a kid (to this day, when my family watches A Christmas Story, and it gets to that line about “in every family, there is a kid who will not eat”, everyone points to me). I didn’t get over it until my dad made a deal with me when I was 14: I could go on an exchange to Japan, but only if I ate everything they gave me. I stuck to it (and, you know, it was a month and I had to eat), and now I’m a really adventurous eater who generally orders the strangest thing on the menu. Unless it involves shrimp. I have tried to like them, and yet. Ew.
I would love a free copy, as I love reading about food, and am looking for something new to start. My husband is very picky, so hopefully, I can gain some insight…..
I like raisins.
(But not so much that I wouldn’t denounce them if it’d help me win a copy of the book…)
I’d love a copy! And that’s even though I love everything pictured on the cover!
As a notoriously picky eater (and I agree about the damned raisins, or roach-impersonators, as I like to call them) this sounds fascinating! I’d love one!
I would also love to have a free copy, this sounds great (and I know it will be hard to find over here in London, sob sob).
I’m in! I never pass on a chance to bitch about Satan’s Herb (cilantro). Don’t need a free copy –
I would love to win this. The library hold list is loooooon, so I might not receive it in time to read along.
I’d love a copy – I’ve been looking forward to it!
I, too, would love a copy of Keckler’s book. I think it’s a great theme, and people’s individual quirks about food fascinate me. (Got no problem with raisins here. Green olives, on the other (stinky) hand? I abhor and abominate those things…
I can’t help wondering what the Nation would make of a dish from a famous chef (not M. Pépin) with a sauce based on an emulsion of capers and raisins. Or, you know, maybe I can guess.
Free copy, even though I am pro-raisin in certain situations.
Oooh, yes please!! In the middle of cilantro debate (I can’t stand it, the SO and his mother are huge fans), thought of this book….
OOOOH! As a picky eater married to a man who would cheerfully eat dirt as long as he could put hot sauce on it, I can’t wait to read this! And I’m not too proud to beg for a free copy, so I can pass it around to my picky-eater friends and those that tolerate us.
I would love a free copy! Looking forward to reading this, and congrats to Keckler for finishing it!
Free copy? Yes, please! I’ll be reading this anyway, though. I find other people’s food likes and dislikes (and their reasons for those) fascinating.
I would ALSO like a free copy! Also, I am the least picky eater ever, so I kinda want to see what this is about.
There should be a whole chapter on tuna fish. Haaaaaaaaaate.
This sounds fascinating. I have a hubby who refuses to eat white foods (ANY white foods, from alfredo and ranch dressing to eggs) and daughters who wont eat cooked vegetables. As a non-picky person myself, I am baffled!
I’d love a copy! I’ve got the whole range of bizarre food personalities in my family – and am trying to keep my kids from falling into food phobias.
Sounds fascinating. I’d love a free copy.
I would love a free copy Sars!
I wouldn’t mind a free copy! Like Hellcat, certain textures really freak me out.
I would LOVE to read this book! As a reformed picky eater, I feel like I have food conversations pretty much every other week. And I really, really want to read the chapter on cilantro, since I have some militantly anti-cilantro friends.
Oh, I’d love a free copy! (Now I’m going back to picking the tomatoes off my Jimmy John’s.)
Yay! I was wondering when the next read-along would take place! And I’m also another one who’s already pre-ordered, so I don’t need a free copy, but I’m looking forward to getting mine soon!
I would love a copy! I’ve got a one-year-old who (so far) will eat pretty much anything, but I’m fascinated by our food aversions and how they arise.
Heck yes. I hate mushrooms!
I would love a free copy!
I’d adore a free copy! I’d love it and cherish it and give it a good home, and understand its hating raisins and fish and nut butters and…
Am I projecting again? Sorry. But it would have its own room.
Fascinating topic – I’d love a copy.
Cool – I’d like a free copy!
But raisins are the devil’s handiwork.
I’m so very picky! I can’t eat rice because of texture issues! This book sounds like such fun.
Sounds delightful!
I *just* learned that my aversion to raw tomatoes is from the same biological anomaly that makes some people find the taste of cilantro soapy! Wow, now I don’t feel so ridiculous! (Especially on a site celebrating the red pulpy fruit.)
What a fun pick!
Been dying to read this since the first tweet I saw! I would love a free copy. Or not. Will buy it eventually.