Photograph by Nick Solares Kenny Shopsin wants you to know that sliders are not really hamburgers: "They might be made of the same components, but so is spaghetti and meatballs when you stop to think about it." The meat...
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Kenny Shopsin, author of this week's Cook the Book selection, Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin has no idea how he came up with Egg Pizza, which is "just like pizza except that a normal crust is...
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How many dishes do you know of that were originally inspired by a Frank Zappa song? I'm guessing not many. Motivated by Zappa's lyrics from his song Jewish Princess: "I want a dainty little Jewish princess with a couple of...
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The writer Calvin Trillin, a longtime patron of the original Shopsin's on Bedford Street in New York City, once took Kenny Shopsin to the bar in Buffalo, New York, where Buffalo wings were invented. The sauce there was a straightforward...
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I was going to save this recipe for later in the week. Slutty Cakes, along with Ho Cakes, are one of the most famous dishes on the Shopsin's menu (PDF). But then I thought, why not start out with a...
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Philosopher-chef Kenny Shopsin, the proprietor of Shopsin's on New York City's Lower East Side, has written what could loosely be called a cookbook, Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin. It's a great book, and you are going...
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