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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I love Keckler’s writing, having followed it since the old Trekkie and Top Chef recaps on TwoP! I would love a copy of her book.
Oh wow, that sounds like something that I would love to read, and then pass on to my sister, who is even pickier than I was at her age. Which seems impossible. I’d love a copy!
Booo, peas! I wonder if anyone can explain away my hatred for something I love so much on Veggie Tales…
I’d love a free copy! I agree with George HW Bush that broccoli sucks!
It’s Keckler. Of COURSE I’d love a free copy.
Would definitely like to receive a free copy. Sounds like a fun and very interesting read! Congrats to Keckler!
Me, please! And raisins are the devil!
Sounds interesting – I’d love to win a copy. Thanks!
I’d love a free copy (but I’ll buy one for the read-along if I don’t get one)!
I definitely will be reading along regardless, but I’d love to have a free copy! I’ve become a slightly more adventurous eater in my 30s, but I think growing up with tons of food allergies and a mom who’s a picky eater led me to be very picky, as well. Someone surely considers me a kookbag ex-girlfriend who only ate white foods!
I’d love a copy. Not as much as I’d love the chance to interview Jacques Pepin, but almost.
Btw, Pepin’s book, The Apprentice, is a terrific read.
I would love to have a free copy of the book. I’m watching the spending while I’m unemployed, but as a person with complicated rules for which creatures-that-live-underwater may be eaten and which may not, it sounds like it’s totally up my alley! (For the curious: clam chowder is okay, the occasional crab cake is okay, shrimp are generally okay. Otherwise, if it lives underwater and is NOT shaped like a fish, no way.)
As a recovering picky eater and mom to a very picky toddler, I’d love to learn more. I’d be thrilled to get a copy. Cheers!
I would love a free copy. And raisins are not food.
I’d love a copy.
Oh, oh, pick me please! My mom loves to remind me that for six straight months of my young life, I would only eat four foods: white rice, hamburger meat, raw green beans and Dannon coffee yogurt. Talk about picky!
I’d love a free copy, as a reformed picky eater (and mother to a budding picky eater). I like raisins, though. Hope that’s cool
Would love a copy!
If I’m not too late to jump in, I’d love a free copy!
If not, I’ll still Kindle it. Sounds like a really interesting read.
Glad to know I’m not the only one who’s more squicked out by certain textures than flavors.
Attica, join me! I have a long story about my aversion to raw tomatoes I am sure you are dying to hear.
I would love a free copy – hoping it will provide justification for all the times I hear “How can you not like XYZ food?”
Dude, I just don’t, OK? :)
I’m very touched and excited by all the interest! Jacques Pepin fans will be interested to know that something he once said to me while I was working on his cooking show is a potential explanation for picky eating. At least, for me.
Would love to read this. Wonder if it has anything on my cottage cheese phobia?
Sounds yummy to me! Been a Keckler fan for a zillion years, so glad she’s gone and writ a book ;-)
I’d love a copy, it sounds awesome!
I’m so excited for this book, I love all of The Grub Report!
“But, seriously, what kind of name ees Keck-lairr?”
I always welcome a chance to win a free book! And for me it’s eggs that aren’t scrambled. Fried, poached, devilled? Can’t eat them.
Another recovering picky eater and raising a toddler who’s proving to be more of the same. I thought that as long as I did not show distaste for anything she’d never pick up on being a picky eater, and yet it didn’t work (also, her dad will eat anything and everything, even things that most people would find questionable or pause at…).
I’d love a free copy, but I’d probably read it regardless, though I have to get through my grad school self imposed summer reading o’ doom (… so it may be a while for me to get around to picking it up by myself).
I’m just up to chapter 5 now– love this book already!
Ooo, sounds fascinating! Though, if I can’t get a free copy, this might be a future book for the library-borrowing since I’m ridiculously broke.
I just had to note this here since it’s concerns the NUMBER of raisins in a freaking wedding cake: http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2012/07/09/120709ta_talk_remnick
Bonnie Benwick — food editor of the Washington Post and fellow raisin hater — Tweeted back: “The Great Tick Society. figures.”
I’m always so relieved to find other people who do not like bananas.
Would love a copy! I have a picky 13 year old, who has gotten slightly better over the last year (actually eats chicken now!) but still makes life difficult:
“mushrooms scare me” An exact quote. But he does like raisins.
The copies we had available have been given away — but perhaps some kind reader can pass his/hers along, so if you guys want to discuss that transaction, please feel free.
Arrrgh, I won’t get to participate in the thread because I’ll be at work, but I’ll definitely read it! Stupid West Coast! Stupid time difference!
Love fresh fruit, hate dried. raisins etc. won’t eat tofu, mostly texture issues. looking forward to this book.