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Dealbreaker for all the reasons listed above.
You want someone to grow old with (It'll come sooner than you think) and anything as important to you as food is there 2-3 times a day, everyday for your whole life.
Best of Luck in finding the right one - watch their eating habits closely.
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it sounds as if the problem is as much how his pickiness presents itself Vs the actual fact of the pickiness.
you need to negotiate how he goes about tasting and reacting. instead of filling his plate hiding the uneaten, he should take a bite only, then only take more of what he will actually eat. He also must accept that if he rejects what's for dinner, he makes his own substitute.

You, OTOH, have to deal with adjusting your daily cooking to reflect some of his opinions. Cooking can be fun, but the day in day out feeding of your partner & family isn't so much about the fun for you as about the fact that people need to eat. Plus, if he rejects your food in favor or cornflakes or PBJ for days on end, you can't be hurt.

if you someday are having kids, he needs to have learned to reject in a low-key fashion so as not to 'teach' his pickiness to them. I won't go so far as to expect him to sometimes noticeable eat something he is known to dislike, to model polite behaviour. But it would be handy.

PS I was in a relationship in which we had very different food cultures. our inability to appreciate each others standards was but one of many problems. But 3 times a day one or both of of us being annoyed or mad or disappointed sure didn't help. If you cant fine some way to enjoy meals together, some compromises, then hang it up now.

My first wife hated eggs, bananas, mustard, my watermelon fruit salad, my top secret recipe 6 grain pancakes, didn't like breakfast in general. Of course, I'm more of a breakfast cook, but her idea of cooking is heating up canned soup (mac and cheese was a highlight of her cooking skills). In fact, when we first got together, the only thing she ate was McDonald's cheeseburgers and fries. (I did get her to eat fresh cut up strawberries.) So when we split, I vowed that I would avoid dating picky eaters.

So of course, my last (I'm planning it that way, anyhow) wife is a great cook - an amateur chef IMHO, but she's vegan (and I'm allergic to the entire legume family). We have great fun trying to create dishes that we can both eat (the entree is always veggies, the protein ends up a side dish for each of us), and she has decided that fried rice with eggs is ok (she is having trouble getting enough protein in her diet). And as a bonus, she loves my pancakes (which I modify by substituting coconut or almond milk for sour milk and/or yogurt), and never complains about my potatoes.

So, as to your problem, drag the bum into the kitchen now and again and make cooking a shared activity - fun-shared, not chore-shared. If he is a good kitchen companion (maybe not entirely his cup-o-tea, but as a special activity), then it will lessen the anti-everything you seem to interpret from him right now, and some of his ideas might end up being useful in figuring out how to feed him when you are cooking without him. If you two can't get along in the kitchen, I'd have to vote for a quick exit strategy.

I think if you were really crazy about this person, his food habits wouldn't bother you as much.

It would eventually chip away at her patience, no matter how much she cares for him. You can only overlook something for so long before it ends up being part of an argument that goes, "Yeah, and another thing..."

sesame-crusted salmon with arugula, corn and some super expensive end-of-season tomatoes (I live in TX, summer just ended)

They are not closing Buon Apetit because she was not running it. It was not the damn recession, it was the magazine. So tired of the excuses. The magazine sucked. It was a giant money bleeding fashion fest. Have not liked it in a long time and I SUBSCRIBED dispite the facts, ffs.
No amount of hoping could save what people are not willing to support.
Again let me remind you Cook's Illustrated is supported by subscribers only. So obviously they are making money and I like and have liked it since issue #1 in 1993.

Anyone see this piece by Ruth Reichl in the NYT Magazine?

I think they are becoming a bit desperate at Cook's Illustrated. Yesterday I received a CI cookbook in the mail that I did not order. It came with an invoice and letter said I could send it back postage free if I didn't like it. They have my address because I'm one of those dummies who pays for access to the CI website. After CK's comments and then the cookbook issue, I'm about ready to call it quits with CI.

CK =ASS

I understand how to cook, I also understand there is a lot of crap out "there", but I will decide where, how and when I will get my content, not CK.

That guy chaps my ass! Elitist... and to quote from Marv Levy, "Oraficious Jerk"!

Where's the tylenol?!

@maine--but I don't think his attitude really allows for good blogs. By stressing the value of professionalism to such a degree, it seems to make very little room for amateur cooks, despite the fact that quite a few 'test kitchens' in the professional world are producing quite amateurish recipes, and some blogs are quite daring.

@chiff--and yes, I think that, even for people who dislike the blog-o-sphere and are more in agreement with CK than I am, would have problems defending the fact that he used what was supposed to be a eulogy to basically praise his business model .

@meem2 - even if you think he's right - there's a right and wrong way to represent. Cook's Ill has shot itself in the foot a few times where public relations are concerned. The over-the-top threats to bloggers who mention CI's recipes, the high-falutin' attitude portrayed in the piece - these things pretty much wipe away any validity to the comments. CK brought more attention to his snooty self than he did a focus on what might or might not have gone wrong with Gourmet.

@peekpoke--I'm truly sorry, but I missed that front page article.

However, to pose a different question, on the whole print versus blog debate--why is there such anti-blog snobbery? Yes, there are bad blogs, but there also are and were truly terrible cookbooks out there--and I mean even pre-Food Network cookbooks. Is the blog-o-sphere really so different--back in the day, lots of people used magazine recipes that involved boxes and mixes and such.

Also, people seem to be dancing around this--what makes a blog so, so bad (other than just blatantly inaccurate recipes and bad writing--I mean, yes, there are many I don't frequent, but I haven't really read any that were so vile I would write editorials against them).

yes, i have the coolers/heaters that plug into the cigarette lighter in the car, you have to preheat them before you move them out to the car...

@dh - how ya doin' -- hows the doggie? yes, putting towels in the cooler works very well. the more insulation the merrier. anyway, where there is a will -- there is a way...