Squelch: A Memoir of Food, Love, and Uncertainty (Combos Press, 2024)
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“I want to praise this tender, wonderful work with food writing as good as Nina Katz’s, but I don’t think anyone could.” – Jamie Loftus, New York Times Bestselling Author of Raw Dog
“Nina Katz takes the feeling of heartbreak—a hunger that will have you eating popcorn for dinner and hiding from your ex’s mom in the grocery store—and pins it to the page with alarming accuracy. Read this now, I am serious.” – Maddy Court, Author of The Ex-Girlfriend of My Ex-Girlfriend Is My Girlfriend
“Moving and meditative, Squelch is a hungry queer ode to living, loving, feeding, and feasting. It will feed your stomach and soul, maybe at once.” – Aliza Abarbanel, Cake Zine
“Nina Katz has done something truly incredible here, something that is tender and sweet and gooey without being cloying. I’m struck both by how necessary food writing like this is right now, how original and deeply felt it is, as well as how much it brings to mind writers like Laurie Colwin and Patience Gray, who tell the stories of their lives in recipes. I see so much of myself and my own intimacies—with food, with people—in Squelch; a testament to the paradoxical truism that the more personal something is, the more relatable it becomes. If you’ve ever felt heartbreak or hunger, this will fill you up.” – Robin Babb, Associate Editor Edible New Mexico
“Through lyric meditations on queer longing paired with the author’s recipes, Nina Katz writes food as more than love language; Katz “[cooks their] grief” like they cook everything else—closeness, heartbreak, identity, their own imagined future—and connects food inexorably to memory and to care. Squelch left me sated and aching—I savored it.” – Katie Machen, co-editor of Eating Alone
“Squelch mines the aftermath of a queer relationship through recipes and personal history. In these pages, tender memories of love and loss are interspersed with the ache of hunger, the slickness of rotting fruit, and the wounds we try to fill using food. An exciting new read from a queer food writer!” – Lindsey Danis, Atlas and Alice
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