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The Goomba Diet: Living Large and Loving It [Hardcover]

Steven R. Schirripa (Author)
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May 9, 2006
Hey, goomba! Are you on the Goomba Diet? Do you need to be?

• Do they put up crime scene tape after you visit the buffet table?

• Is the air freshener in your car a slice of provolone?

Stop crying! The Goomba Diet is here—the dolce vita diet that shows you how to eat more, drink more, laugh more, live more, and feel great while you’re doing it. The Goomba Diet offers sensible weight-loss tips for the guy who’s gone too far:

• Touch your toes. If this is difficult, pay a guy to do it for you.

• Walk to court.

It also offers helpful maintenance tips for the goomba who’s the perfect weight and wants to stay that way:

• Try an appetite suppressant. Try eating at Applebee’s.

• Pick up something heavy. Get a copy of The Da Vinci Code.

• Cut out those carbs. Only eat pastas that end in the letter i.

The Goomba Diet is the personal lifestyle guide from Steven R. Schirripa—Bobby “Bacala” Baccalieri from HBO’s hit series The Sopranos and author of the bestseller A Goomba’s Guide to Life. Developed over decades of dreaming about and then living the high life, it’s a how-to guide for happy living—how to duke a maître d', how to order a good meal, how to be a good father, a good husband and a good friend, and how to behave at a wedding, a funeral, and on the job. You wanna have a good time? Follow these rules:

• Do tip the maid. Don’t tip the made guy.

• Do tip the D.J. Don’t tip the D.A.

• Do tell the bride she’s beautiful. Don’t tell her she’s hardly showing.

• Do give your kids an allowance. Don’t offer to “make it interesting” by shooting craps for double or nothing.

The Goomba Diet is for everyone with an appetite for life, and for everyone who understands that the key to happiness isn’t found in a smaller waistline but in a bigger heart. Like Steve says, “There’s a lot of skinny actors wearing black turtlenecks and tending bar right now who’d kill for a part on The Sopranos. This fat goomba is doing all right for himself.”

So relax! Stop worrying about how much you’re eating, and start worrying about how much you’re enjoying it. Lose weight if you like—but live! Put a fork in your right hand, a hunk of bread in your left, and mangia like you mean it.


HBO® and The Sopranos® are service marks of Time Warner Entertainment Company, L.P.

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Praise for Steven R. Schirripa's Goomba Diet

“Actor, author, film and TV star, talk show host, and now diet guru? Forget James Brown. Steve Schirripa is the hardest working man in show business.” —Michael Imperioli, “Christopher Moltisanti” on The Sopranos

“I’ve read Steve’s book and I’ve seen his cholesterol report. They’ve both got mozzarella all over them.” —Vince Curatola, “Johnny Sack” from The Sopranos

“When it comes to goombas, Steve is one of the best . . . Just don’t take him out and feed him!!!” —Tony Sirico, “Paulie Walnuts” on The Sopranos

“Finally a diet even I could stick to.” —James Gandolfini, “Tony Soprano” on The Sopranos

“I’m staying open-minded, but all I know is before the diet Steve was playing Gandhi—now he’s playing India.” —Steve Van Zandt, “Silvio Dante” on The Sopranos

“A great career, a great family, a great attitude, and a great appetite! Who wouldn’t want to live this way?” —Mario Batali, host of Molto Mario and author of Molto Mario

“Author Steve Schirripa loves food like no one I’ve ever met. His “Ode to a Calzone” moved me to tears.” —Terence Winter, writer and executive producer on The Sopranos

“If all my customers ate like Steve I could get my own TV show.” —Michael DeGeorgio, owner, Il Cortile restaurant

“If only Steve lifted weights the way he lifts his fork, he’d be Mr. Olympia.” —Hans Felcher, Steve Schirripa’s personal trainer

“These are lessons on how to live well and eat well from a guy who really knows how to do both.” —Ilene S. Landress, certified dietician and executive producer on The Sopranos

“Steve’s a great guy with a healthy and wholesome goomba appetite. We hope he’ll never tire of his love for garlic and olive oil.” —Dan Tana, owner Dan Tana’s restaurant



HBO® and The Sopranos® are service marks of Time Warner Entertainment Company, L.P.

About the Author

Steven R. Schirripa, a native of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, is a six-season veteran of HBO’s The Sopranos, a correspondent for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and the host of Spike TV’s Casino Cinema. He has appeared in numerous TV shows and films. He is the coauthor (with Charles Fleming) of the national bestsellers A Goomba’s Guide to Life and The Goomba’s Book of Love and a children’s book, Nicky Deuce: Welcome to the Family. Steve Schirripa lives with his wife and two daughters in New York City.

Charles Fleming is the author of the novels The Ivory Coast and After Havana, and the nonfiction bestsellers High Concept and Three Weeks in October. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Los Angeles.



HBO® and The Sopranos® are service marks of Time Warner Entertainment Company, L.P.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Clarkson Potter (May 9, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 140005463X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1400054633
  • Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.7 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,784,130 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious!, May 14, 2006
This review is from: The Goomba Diet: Living Large and Loving It (Hardcover)
I purchased this book on Friday as a gift. The book happened to get passed around my office. My co workers were laughing hysterically as they were all reading excerpts from the book. I have never seen anything like it. The book is very funny and would make a great gift for someone who can use a laugh. I plan on buying another copy to give to my Dad on Fathers day. 2 thumbs up.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A funny diet book for those with a sense of humor, May 13, 2006
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Andre B (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Goomba Diet: Living Large and Loving It (Hardcover)
This is a really funny, self-deprecating book about celebrating life, spending time with friends and family, and not taking yourself too seriously. The title is quite misleading actually. It has nothing to do with diets, weight loss tips or recipes. The diet angle is only a small part of the book and it refers more to the customs and lifestyles of a goomba, not eating habits. It really reads more like a sequel to his first book, "A Goomba's Guide to Life". If you're a fan of that book you'll enjoy this very much. Steven Schirripa's stories about his days working in Las Vegas to hanging around with cast members from "The Sopranos" are interesting and insightful. Any fan of the show will also love the personal benind the scenes photos, worth the price of the book alone. My favorite though is a photo of Steven Schirripa's mother and P. Diddy. The caption reads, "Don't ask. I have no idea." The man obviously has a colorful history and despite his rising stardom hasn't forgotten where he's from.

The book is peppered with jokes about being fat, goomba diet tips, goomba eating etiquette, and other things goomba. - many of them laugh out loud funny. I noticed in the acknowledgements that the authors thank Nick Di Paolo who happens to be one of the funniest comedians in the country. He clearly lent a humorous hand. But again it's all tongue in cheek. Anyobody who thinks this is a real diet book probably thinks "Scrubs" is about real hospitals. Buy the book and don't take it nor yourself so seriously!
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read For Sporano's Fans, May 15, 2006
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Jerry R. (Montreal, Quebec) - See all my reviews
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I just finished reading Steve Schirripa's new book "The Goomga Diet". The book is a hilarious, insightful and interesting look at one man's experience as an Italian-American and, of course, is a must read for fans of The Sopranos.
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