I was able to make it to Shopsin's while he was still cooking. He's good friends (at the time there was a picture of them on his menu) with the owners of a restaurant I worked at up in Vermont. Kenny was incredibly sweet and talkative. The head chef I worked for was obsessed with him, and our restaurant carried a lot of his philosophies. It's was one of the best jobs I've ever had. My boss let me borrow his book - Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin. Highly recommend it. The guy was one of a kind.
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I was able to make it to Shopsin's while he was still cooking. He's good friends (at the time there was a picture of them on his menu) with the owners of a restaurant I worked at up in Vermont. Kenny was incredibly sweet and talkative. The head chef I worked for was obsessed with him, and our restaurant carried a lot of his philosophies. It's was one of the best jobs I've ever had. My boss let me borrow his book - Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin. Highly recommend it. The guy was one of a kind.