title: Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin
author:  Kenny Shopsin 
description: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1000270711"><strong>Amazon Best of the Month, September 2008</strong></a>: The eccentric and engaging food-lit manifesto, <em>Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin</em>, 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 <em>New Yorker</em> profile and the documentary <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/?ASIN=B000S0GYOI"><em>I Like Killing Flies</em></a>, but <em>Eat Me</em> 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 <i>Eat Me</i> feels like the next best thing. <em>--Brad Thomas Parsons</em>
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  Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin
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  IS A BORZOI BOOK
  PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
  Copyright © 2008 by Kennv Shopsin
  All rights reserved. Published in the United States
  bv Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.,
  New York, and in Canada bv Random House of Canada
  Limited, Toronto.
  www. aaknopf.com
  Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered
  trademarks of Random House, Inc.
  The foreword to this work originally appeared in The New
  Yorker as "Don't Mention
  It: The Hidden Life and Times
  of a Greenwich Village Restaurant" bv Calvin Trillin
  (April 15, 2002), copyrig