The home page of IFOCE.com has a tribute to “Krazy” Kevin Lipsitz’s decade long competitive eating career.

Sonya Thomas did an interview for the Arlington Connection last month. Apparently she has changed her diet from one big daily meal from Burger King:

AC: How have you managed to stay so thin over the course of your competitive eating career? Is it just genetics or is there a trick that you use to keep the weight off?

ST: I am very active on my job and I’m on the treadmill several times a week. I’m also lucky to have a very, very high metabolism. I actually need to eat well over 3,000 calories each day just to maintain my current weight of 100 pounds. However, I’m no junk food junky. The food I eat is very healthy with lots of fruits, veggies, and protein, and very little fat.

CBS2Chicago.com has a video clip of a turkey eating contest between Pat Bertoletti and Tim Brown held to promote their appearance in the Turkey Bowl. The news anchor refers to that contest as the “MLS Showdown”

“Sweet” Jill Stoler’s myspace page announces that she is going to Japan and that details will follow. AICE news reports that a team is being formed to compete with Japanese eaters.

Tomoko Miyake experienced “the munchies” at a “pot party” and wrote a blog entry about it.

A New York Times blog entry reports on a skateboarding festival that took place in Shanghai, China. A hot dog eating contest was held during that event. Not many details are provided about the competition, but a a picture of a sign says it was called the “2nd Melrose & Hormel Hot Dog Eating Championship”

Video from the first Wing Bowl qualification stunt is available on philly.com’s Wing Bowl page. The “Reincarnation of Smarty Jones” attempts to eat three cheesesteak sandwiches from three different restaurants.

BeautifulBrian reports that El Toro makes a guest appearance on a track on Badlands Booker’s new album, which can be listened to on on El Toro’s myspace page

El Toro is not the only rapping Hispanic competitive eater. “Nurse” Caterina of the Heart Attack Grill is also trying to develop a hip-hop career. Caterina will appear in the upcoming movie “Midnight is the Darkest Hour”

Nov 29 chicken wing eating contest, Portage, MI, $200 first prize, $20 entry fee
Dec 1 Backyard Burger eating contest, Meridian, MS
Dec 1 pizza eating contest, East Manatee, FL
Dec 1 Buffalo wing eating contest, Bonita Springs, FL, $200 first prize, $10 entry fee

(from Joey Lee) Clips from the turkey eating contest between Tim “Eater X” Janus and Juliet Lee from “The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet” can be viewed online.

An English transcript of Tomoko Miyake’s dumpling eating contest against the Korean boy band Super Junior has been entered in the comments of that video by intplife.

Philly.com has a press release announcing Wing Bowl 16 which states that Joey Chestnut and Bill “El Wingador” Simmons are expected to compete. The top prizes will be Toyotas.

The fake ad from the Nathan’s finals episode of “Cheap Seats” starring David Cross (”Tobias” from “Arrested Development”) as a diet supplement pitchman can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D5TVfMi-LU

IFOCE.com reports that Pat Bertoletti has donated $1,000 of his winning to the MLE gives charity.

FritoLay.co.jp reports that snack foods endorsed by Nobuyuki Shirota and Tomoko Miyake were released today. Shirota and Miyake also designed and endorsed snacks for Frito Lay last year.

JapanToday.com has an English article about Natsuko “Gal” Sone and the trend towards larger portions in Japanese fast food restaurants

By August, McDonald’s posted its all-time monthly sales record, and a food industry analyst credits the Mega Mac for having returned operations to profitability.

This message was not lost on McDonald’s rivals. On Oct 16, the Sukiya chain followed suit, introducing its Mega Beef Bowl — boasting a triple-sized portion of beef — for 650 yen. Its 1,286 kilocalories constitutes about half an adult male’s daily nutritional requirements. Demand for the new dish is said to be steady.

The same day Sukiya’s Mega Beef Bowl went on sale, the Family Mart convenience store chain launched its Mega Hamburger Bento boxed meal for 540 yen, and followed up a week later with the Mega Chicken Cutlet Bento for 590 yen.

“We believe that Ms Sone’s TV appearances have been a factor contributing to the ‘supersize’ boom,” a reporter covering the food industry tells Shukan Shincho.

The WIP home page has an announcement that Wing Bowl tickets will go on sale December 12 at 9 am and can be purchased at ComCastTix.com

update Philly.com’s Wing Bowl page has been updated with Wing Bowl 16 information.

There is currently a poll on MSNBC asking the question “Are competitive eating contests harmless celebrations of gastronomic greatness or sheer gluttony?”

The choices are: 1) Lighten up, people! They’re a belly-full of innocent fun. 2) With a third of Americans now obese, these contests are in bad taste. 3) I don’t know

The anti-CE voters are currently leading 51% to 44%

The home page of 610wip.com says that there will be an announcement about the upcoming Wing Bowl tomorrow during Angelo Cataldi’s show. No details are provided.

An article about Dave “US Male” Goldstein reports that tickets for Wing Bowl 16 will go on sale November 26 at 10 am eastern.

Today is Joey Chestnut’s 24th birthday. November 1983 has to be considered the strongest month for competitive eaters when you consider that Takuya Yamamoto (November 5) and Tomoko Miyake (November 21) have already turned 24 this month.

Joe Menchetti appears in an ESPN.com article about fans of the University of Connecticut traveling to the Gulf Coast for the men’s and women’s Final Fours in 2004:

Another stroll down River Walk, and I run into “Big Red,” a really loud fan who always starts the crowd cheering “U-C-O-N-N!” He gives me the cell-phone number of a Joe Manchetti, another Huskie-maniac who is on the road somewhere between New Orleans and San Antonio.

“I flew on Friday from Hartford to Baton Rouge, and drove to San Antonio,” said Joe. “Took me about seven hours. We were tired. After the Saturday games, we walked back to the hotel — for about a mile. I took a shower and a power nap for a few hours. Totally forgot about Daylight Savings Time.

All clips from The Daily Show are now free, including several about competitive eating: 2001 segment about Don Lerman by Stephen Colbert, report on 2005 Nathan’s finals, interview with Ryan Nerz to promote “Eat This Book”

Greene County (Indiana) Daily reports that Jessica Beall has repeated as winner of the pizza eating contest held at the Apple Festival. She has won a division of the pizza contest at the Apple Festival for four of the past five years. The year she did not win, she was ineligible due to being an employee of the restaurant sponsoring the pizza contest.

2006 contest report, 2005 contest report

The full Turkey Bowl program can be viewed on the MLE page at http://www.ifilm.com/show/23406 There is also a video clip of Juliet Lee’s cranberry sauce victory.

The appearance of JulietLee.com has been updated and the new WriteNow page on julietlee.com describes how that site is produced. Juliet also responds to her critics.