num_pages: 260
description: Pancakes are a luxury like smoking marijuana or having sex. Thats 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) Shopsins which has been in existence since 1971.Kenny has finally put together his 900-plus-item menu and his unique philosophyimagine Elizabeth David crossed with Richard Pryorto create Eat Me the most profound and profane cookbook youll ever read. His rantson 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 headwill 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 youve ever eaten Eat Me is White Trash Cooking for the twenty-first century as unforgettable and mind-boggling as its author.
language: English
title: Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin: A Cookbook
publisher: Knopf