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The British newspaper The Guardian has a review of Man vs. Food calling the program "obscene on many levels, but daft on several more".
Adam Richman of Man vs. Food will appear on ESPN2's First Take today to rank the top 8 breakfast cereals.

CityPaper on “Swallow Your Pride” screening

The Philadelphia City Paper has an interview with Bill “El Wingador” Simmons who will attend Monday’s screening of the Wing Bowl documentary “Swallow Your Pride” at National Mechanics in Philadelphia. Simmons believes he should have defeated Sonya Thomas in the 2004 Wing Bowl.

A youtube page has been set up with clips from Swallow Your Pride

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DailyMotion has a video of the hot dog eating contest from the VH1 reality show Tool Academy
Tonight's episode of Man vs. Food will be a clip show of meals containing meat from previous episodes.
Michelle Beadle of ESPN's SportsNation concurs with columnist Jemele Hill that if she could trade jobs with anybody for a day, it would be Adam Richman of Man vs. Food

Man v Food at Melt Bar & Grilled

CandisAshley and LaurelMackenzie report that Man vs. Food is recording at Melt Bar and Grilled in Lakewood, Ohio today. update Dana Cahill has some pictures. update March 1 A facebook gallery is available.

update March 2 BrokenHeadphones has a blog entry about the filming.

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The New York Times has an article and blog entry about how customers of Ike's Place have overrun the neighborhood it is located in after the sandwich shop appeared on the San Francisco episode of Man vs. Food

“Hot Tub Time Machine” writer previously wrote “AYCE” movie

The first screenplay written by Josh Heald (twitter), writer of the upcoming movie “Hot Tub Time Machine” (March 26 release), was “All You Can Eat”, a comedy set in the world of competitive eating. To research his subject, Heald competed in the 2006 Nathan’s Las Vegas qualifier and ate 11 hot dogs in 12 minutes. (Joey Chestnut was the first American to break 50 hot dogs at that contest.) The Los Angeles Times reports that Heald won the amateur competition at the 2006 chili cheese fries eating contest.

Josh Heald’s IMDB page
lists “All You Can Eat” as “In Development”. The script was sold to New Line in 2004.

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Man vs. Food is recording at Steve's Gyros and the Westside Market in Cleveland today. update Man vs. Food is recording at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on February 25.
A commenter on the Man vs. Food facebook reports that the program recorded at Crown Burger in Salt Lake City.
Philly.com reports that an eating contest might be held in conjunction with a March 8 screening of the Wing Bowl documentary Swallow Your Pride
twitter.com/ExtremeAmy (Fox5Vegas): "need 2 people to compete in the world’s largest gummy bear eating contest. Feb. 24th -4am to 9am!"
Alibi has an article about Cecilia's Cafe in Albquerque, which offers a 10 pound burrito that will be featured on an upcoming episode of Man vs. Food.

Gluttonous Queen 2010 recording

Recording for the 2010 Gluttonous Queen finals has started at the Royal Hawaiian in Honolulu. Starlet Shay is posting twitter updates from the site.

update Maya has a twitpic. Gal Sone does not seem to have competed.

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Kimberly Carrasco and Brianna claim to have seen Adam Richman attempting the omelet challenge for an upcoming episode of Man vs. Food at the Broken Yolk yesterday.

Undercover Boss Hooter’s eating contest video

Here is a video of the hands-free baked bean contest for Hooter’s waitresses on last night’s episode of Undercover Boss: (audio is crackly)

UndercoverBossContest.avi (1.7 M, 72 seconds)

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Rabbitman333 has videos of Adam Richman attemping the 48 ounce steak from Don Shula's steakhouse during the live episode of Man vs. Food: Part 1 | Part 2
GI Productions' facebook has a gallery and clip from the upcoming Furious Pete documentary.
A facebook and twitter comment claim that the challenge for Adam Richman in San Diego will be the iron man omelet at the Broken Yolk Cafe. The date of the challenge is not listed.

Man vs. Food @ Phil’s BBQ in San Diego Tuesday?

Dining Out SD has more information about Man vs. Food recording at Phil’s BBQ in San Diego Tuesday.

update The facebook post has been removed without explanation. It is still on the DiningOutSD twitter. Commenters in a yelp thread say there will be no recording Tuesday.

update #2 An email was sent out to members of Phil’s mailing list and the event is mentioned in another yelp post. It is not clear if members of the general public will be allowed to attend.

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"Furious" Pete Czerwinski has uploaded a video of a television program he recorded in Austria.
The Man vs. Food home page announces that new episodes of the program will be televised in June.
Variety reports that Shaquille O'Neal will compete in non-traditional sports in the second season of Shaq Vs. and competitive eating is a possibility for an upcoming episode.
Will Millender will appear on the 6:30 eastern episode of Silent Library on MTV today. Will has also produced a rap called "The Champ is Here"
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