Comments on: Q & A with Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic, author of “Suffering Succotash: A Picky Eater’s Quest to Understand Why We Hate the Foods We Hate” http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/07/02/q-a-with-stephanie-v-w-lucianovic-author-of-suffering-succotash-a-picky-eater%e2%80%99s-quest-to-understand-why-we-hate-the-foods-we-hate/ Culinary Rants & Raves from Bay Area Food Professionals Thu, 23 May 2013 16:29:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Stephanie Lucianovic http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/07/02/q-a-with-stephanie-v-w-lucianovic-author-of-suffering-succotash-a-picky-eater%e2%80%99s-quest-to-understand-why-we-hate-the-foods-we-hate/comment-page-1/#comment-160760 Stephanie Lucianovic Fri, 06 Jul 2012 16:58:00 +0000 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=45299#comment-160760 Hey, BR — I actually address that exact thing in the book! I was fascinated when I came across that bit of research (bacon, too, apparently). I hope the book makes you feel better and I hope it makes you laugh.

]]> By: devans00 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/07/02/q-a-with-stephanie-v-w-lucianovic-author-of-suffering-succotash-a-picky-eater%e2%80%99s-quest-to-understand-why-we-hate-the-foods-we-hate/comment-page-1/#comment-160759 devans00 Fri, 06 Jul 2012 13:44:00 +0000 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=45299#comment-160759 As a multigenerational picky eater, this book seems right up my ally.

]]> By: BR http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/07/02/q-a-with-stephanie-v-w-lucianovic-author-of-suffering-succotash-a-picky-eater%e2%80%99s-quest-to-understand-why-we-hate-the-foods-we-hate/comment-page-1/#comment-149482 BR Tue, 03 Jul 2012 19:18:00 +0000 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=45299#comment-149482 As a lifelong picky eater, I’m definitely going to check out this book. Maybe it’ll explain why french fries are my favorite food, yet any other form of potatoes are among my least favorite.

]]> By: JH http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/07/02/q-a-with-stephanie-v-w-lucianovic-author-of-suffering-succotash-a-picky-eater%e2%80%99s-quest-to-understand-why-we-hate-the-foods-we-hate/comment-page-1/#comment-149131 JH Tue, 03 Jul 2012 07:29:00 +0000 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=45299#comment-149131 I took a trip to North Korea last year (yeah, you can do that, as long as you go through the gov’t), and as part of the tour, they brought their western guests to an Italian restaurant.  It was nothing fancy, pasta, pizza, even changed to match Korean taste buds.  Two of our “guides” couldn’t stomach this foreign food, and ordered off the Korean section of the menu.

So to answer your question about foreign taste buds, yes, people raised in very different food cultures (even in a nation that has known starvation) can in fact be picky eaters, with preferences that match their own cultures rather than the norm elsewhere in the world.

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