Over 225 photos, several of which are posted here, were shot by designer / photographer Jason Fulford for the book “Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin”, published by Alfred A Knopf. All these people must be just really neat because I can’t get over how simultaniously grossed out and hungry this picture of a cheeseburger makes me. Great lighting, that’s what it must be.

The book these are for is one of the top 100 books of 2008 according to critics on the Amazon booksales site. The photos you see here are recently released for the photographers portfolio, here for you outside the book for the first time. Click around a little bit, then go get the book!

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.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies celebration category. For all of its burgery goodness.