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PERIGEE Trade Paperback July 2012
SUFFERING SUCCOTASH
A Picky Eater’s Quest to Understand Why
We Hate the Foods We Hate
Stephanie V. W. Lucianovic
978-0-399-53750-9 • $15.00/$16.00 Can.
Trade Paperback
256 pp./5 1/8” x 8”
Carton: 48
Food Writing
Rights: W00
First serial, UK, audio: Perigee
Other: Levine Greenberg Literary Agency, Inc.
307 Seventh Avenue, Suite 2407
New York, NY 10001
Publishing History: Original
EAN: 9780399537509 51500
On sale July 3, 2012
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A funny and fascinating investigation of food
fears from a writer who’s been in the
culinary trenches.
As a child, Stephanie Lucianovic created an elaborate system for disposing
of yucky food involving bookshelves, holiday centerpieces, and, later,
boyfriends. As an adult, this picky eater found herself in the most
unlikely of circumstances: a graduate of culinary school who became a
cheesemonger and then a food writer. Along the way, she realized just
how common her plight was. Picky eating is an issue for millions of kids;
there are even support groups for adults who can’t kick it.
With wit and charm, through visits to laboratories specializing in gene
testing and support groups for parents of picky eaters, Stephanie explores
her own food phobias and tries to discover the roots of picky eating. Even
as she eggs fellow picky eaters on, offering plenty of clever ways to avoid
hated foods in every social situation, she also shares tips to help readers
overcome pickiness in themselves and their children.
MARKETING
• National television and radio interviews
• West Coast media and in-store author events
• Regional radio interview campaign
• Online publicity
• Online advertising
• Print features and reviews
SALES POINTS
• Suffering Succotash’s combination of insightful research, memoir, and witty
voice is reminiscent of authors such as Mary Roach and Sarah Vowell, and
will appeal to memoir and pop science readers as well as foodies
• Picky eating is a widespread and much discussed issue, particularly in the
parenting community
• Lucianovic worked for nearly ten years for the popular site Television Without
Pity, where she wrote the Top Chef recaps
• A graduate of the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts in Massachusetts,
Stephanie has also helped develop a line of cookbooks with Williams-
Sonoma and has written about food for CHOW, Sunset magazine, and
Cowgirl Creamery, as well as in her own food blog, The Grub Report
Stephanie V. W. Lucianovic is a freelance writer, editor, and sometime
cheesemonger in the San Francisco Bay Area. Author website: grubreport.com
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