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Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin | 
| Authors: Kenny Shopsin, Carolynn Carreno
Publisher: Knopf
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 4936
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.1 x 1
ISBN: 0307264939
Dewey Decimal Number: 647.95068
EAN: 9780307264930
ASIN: 0307264939
Publication Date: September 23, 2008
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Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best of the Month, September 2008: The eccentric and engaging food-lit manifesto, Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin, collects the wisdom, rants, and recipes of New York's most legendarily cranky, publicity-hating short-order cook. The foul-mouthed genius of Kenny Shopsin has been captured before, most notably in Calvin Trillin's wonderful New Yorker profile and the documentary I Like Killing Flies, but Eat Me gives a from-the-cook's-mouth take on life behind the counter, with the layout of a quirky, illustrated textbook. Chapter titles like "Selling Water, or the Secret of the Restaurant Business" and "The Story of Shopsin's Turkey, or Why I Hate the Health Department" should give you a taste of what's in store. Formerly located in Greenwich Village, Shopin's now sets up camp at Stall No. 16 at the Essex Street Market, where you'll find dozens of soups, sandwiches, burgers, milk shakes, breakfast plates, and pancakes (from Plain to White Mint Chocolate Chip), along with original comfort-food classics like Blisters on My Sisters (tortillas, cheese, fried eggs, beans, and rice), gracing the crammed 900-item menu. Getting tossed out of Shopsin's (for whatever offense) has taken on badge-of-honor status among diners--the culinary equivalent of being on the business end of a Don Rickles zinger. Reading Eat Me feels like the next best thing. --Brad Thomas Parsons
Product Description
"Pancakes are a luxury, like smoking marijuana or having sex. That’s why I came up with the names Ho Cakes and Slutty Cakes. These are extra decadent, but in a way, every pancake is a Ho Cake.” Thus speaks Kenny Shopsin, legendary (and legendarily eccentric, ill-tempered, and lovable) chef and owner of the Greenwich Village restaurant (and institution), Shopsin’s, which has been in existence since 1971.
Kenny has finally put together his 900-plus-item menu and his unique philosophy—imagine Elizabeth David crossed with Richard Pryor—to create Eat Me, the most profound and profane cookbook you’ll ever read. His rants—on everything from how the customer is not always right to the art of griddling; from how to run a small, ethical, and humane business to how we all should learn to cook in a Goodnight Moon world where everything you need is already in your own home and head—will leave you stunned or laughing or hungry. Or all of the above.
With more than 120 recipes including such perfect comfort foods as High School Hot Turkey Sandwiches, Cuban Bean Polenta Melt, and Cornmeal-Fried Green Tomatoes with Comeback Sauce, plus the best soups, egg dishes, and hamburgers you’ve ever eaten, Eat Me is White Trash Cooking for the twenty-first century, as unforgettable and mind-boggling as its author.
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Whip It Out! January 5, 2009
Back when I was a kid that was the response to the title of this book that we would use on the playground....today, I'd happily say it to Mr. Kenny Shopsin if I had the chance, and I'd hope he would whip out virtually any item from the six page menu illustrated in this amazing compendium of recipes. Until this afternoon I'd never read a cookbook before, except for The Anarchist Cookbook when I was in grade school. Eat Me was sitting on the counter at the bookstore I was working at and as I picked it up and started perusing it I found that not only could I not put it down until I was finished, I immediately wanted to buy a bus ticket for NYC and, with a wad of twenties in my pocket, I felt the need to visit Kenny's eatery and dig-in for a few days and worship in his cathedral of cuisine. I want to start with the Chicken-Fried Hamburger and then work my way through breakfast, lunch and dinner and swear to Mr. Shopsin that I will never arrive in a party of five! He is a GOD and my new favorite author! I hope there is a sequel and until then, I plan to read this tome again and actually try a few of the recipes, even though I've never really cooked anything more complicated than a batch of Hamburger Helper. I also really liked the photos of odd gumball machines and other accoutrements peppered throughout the book. It gets my highest recommendation and I truly hope to meet the author someday...ideally at his establishment with him giving me his all approving eye as he prepares the best Loco Moco ever! Bon Appetit MF, indeed!
Kenny gets it December 23, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Shopsin totally gets food; it's not precious, it's not snobby, it's not showy or fake. His unbridled joy of cooking is so evident in this book, it makes you want to run to the kitchen to make stuff.
The off hand language and seemingly casual liason with formal cooking techniques is deceptive; Mr. Shopsin completely understands the scientific nuances that undergird culinary greatness. And he swears. Cool beans. Buy it; buy lots of copies because you're going to want to buy it for everyone you know who loves to cook but is afraid to cook.
Even better than I thought it would be November 30, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I think the book has a lot of good "diner recipes" and I definitely like the story part of the book more than the actual recipes. You can tell that Kenny ,even with his tough exterior, is nice man who loves his family and cooking.
I am 19 and going to culinary school in a few months... I'm just trying to read as much as I possibly can about food, and this was Not a waste of time!
Excellent & entertaining ! November 25, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
You don't have to be a foodie or even like to cook to love this book. Kenny Shopsin's philosophy on cooking, running a restaurant and people in general is unlike anything I've ever experienced. Brilliant, hysterical, and some good recipies to boot. Buy it, enjoy it, share it.
 Review of Kenny Shopsin's "Eat Me" November 25, 2008
This was a great read, and has workable, enjoyable recipes as well. That's pretty much all I want from a cookbook.
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