(via George Shea twitter) CompetitiveEating.Net reports that Ed “Cookie” Jarvis is cancer free after his surgery for thyroid cancer. Jarvis’ home page, hugeeaters.com, confirms the good news.

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CompetitiveEatingNews has been updated with a report on Cookie Jarvis’ thyroid cancer treatment. (via crawfish twitter)

HugeEaters.com has been updated with the following message: “ED ” COOKIE ” JARVIS IS NOW RECOVERING FROM SURGERY AND DOING WELL. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR KIND THOUGHTS!”

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(via Liz K) HugeEaters.com, Ed “Cookie” Jarvis’ home page, has been updated with the following sad news:

“Cookie Jarvis” to begin his next big battle.
His personal battle with Thyroid Cancer.

Let’s keep Cookie in our thoughts and prayers and hope his condition responds to treatment.

update Feb 5 SonyaTheBlackWidow.com has been updated to wish Cookie a quick recovery.

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• Kobayashi has a blog entry about Cookie Jarvis and his jacket
• AICE Blue Baker World Cookie Eating Championship in College Station, TX on April 4, $1500 purse
• Bacon Eating contest at second Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival (Des Moines) February 28
• Pizza Eating contest at Carolina (Raleigh) Rollergirls roller derby match on January 24
• Youtube page for Joel “The Cannon” Podelsky’s contests

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• Gallery of Famous Famiglia pizza contest with French captions
• Kobayashi meets fashion designer Diane von Furstenburg
• Student wins Don Lerman style hot dog hat after eating 9 HDB in 3 minutes
• Bubba Yarbrough leaves IFOCE for the WLOCE according to comment
• Dale Boone finishes unnamed 4 pound burger in Morganton, NC and names it “Dale’s Daniel Boone Burger” according to WLOCE.com
• BeautifulBrian.com has commentary on the new rankings
  
• Video of Cookie Jarvis at the WBAB studios last week

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Cookie Jarvis’ home page announces that he will be on WBAB between 6am and 10am on October 17. The radio station has on-line streaming of its programming.

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Cookie Jarvis will be competing in an eating contest against an undetermined competitor at the Norwich (CT) Defenders minor league baseball game Thursday.

In other Cookie Jarvis news, he is quoted in Newsday about the cost of moving mobile homes.

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Video from the Travel Channel’s “Battle of the Buffets”, in which Badlands Booker, Cookie Jarvis and the LeFevres competed can be viewed on the Travel Channel’s website

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A press release announces that the Norwich (Connecticut) Defenders will sell tickets to Thursday games that will include all you can eat hamburgers/cheeseburgers, hot dogs, pretzels, and popcorn along with sodas and hot beverages. Tickets will cost $15 for adults and $12 for children. Ed “Cookie” Jarvis will appear at the opening game on April 3 to promote the tickets:

To help introduce this great money saving package, Professional Speed Eater, Ed “Cookie” Jarvis will be adding to the Opening Day festivities, showcasing his incredible eating abilities. Jarvis captured 30 eating titles from 2001-06 including Nathan’s Famous French Fry Eating Contest in 2005 where “Cookie” tackled 4.46 pounds of the famous krinkle cut fries in six minutes. One lucky fan will get to compete against Cookie in a one minute eating contest. Jarvis will be signing autographs and posing for photos throughout the game courtesy of Courant ValuMail.

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The website for TV Tokyo has a page about the July 19, 2001 edition of TV Champion which culminated in footage from the 2001 Nathan’s finals where Takeru Kobayashi doubled the record from the previous mark of 25. The program also included qualifiers to determine who would compete alongside defending champion Kaz Arai. In one of the qualifiers, eaters competed against a sushi making robot.

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There are now 15 videos on http://www.youtube.com/user/majorleagueeating I think that most if not all the videos were originally on majorleagueeating.com There are profiles of Badlands Booker, Don “Moses” Lerman and Cookie Jarvis in addition to footage of recent contests.

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BeautifulBrian.com has a page on the dispute with Cookie Jarvis. I will link to a response from Cookie Jarvis if he wants to provide one.

BeautifulBrian.com also has the second music history podcast. The subject is soundalike songs.

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