• 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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Several articles about competive eating from the New York Times archive which previously required payment are now available for free (in reverse chronological order)
preview of 2005 NJ pizza contest, mentions Pat Philbin
2005 Review of Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating
Short article about Kate Stelnick (she claims to have drunk 14 glasses of water while eating the 96er)
Long 2003 profile of Carson “Collard Green” Hughes
Preview of 2003 Wing Bowl, focuses on Bill “El Wingador” Simmons and “Belly” Donna Villec
Report on the 2002 pelmeni contest
2002 preview of Nathan’s finals, mainly about the Sheas
2002 article about Don Lerman, Badlands Booker & Cookie Jarvis, calls George Shea a “competitive eater since 1988″
2001 profile of Kevin Lipsitz
Article on quick start controversy at 1999 Nathan’s finals
Report on 1999 Nathan’s finals
preview of 1999 Ben’s Deli’s matzoh ball contest
1998 article about Mike DeVito, also mentions start of the IFOCE, originally the International Federation of Hot Dog Eating
1997 interview with Ed Krachie
Report on December 1996 duel between Ed Krachie and Nakajima
1996 Nathan’s final report
1995 Nathan’s finals results
Report on 1995 Nathan’s New Jersey qualifier, contest was 10 minutes long
article on 1994 Nathan’s finals, mentions Curtis Sliwa’s participation
Report on 1990 Nathan’s, says Jay Green & Mike DeVito tied for first place
Preview of 1987 Nathan’s, registrations were still being accepted by phone on July 3
Report on 1984 women’s only pancake contest

A video of Joey G attempting to win a free meal by eating two three pound burritos at Pinata’s on Long Island has been uploaded to youtube. Cookie Jarvis’ record in the challenge is mentioned at the start of the video.

(From BeautifulBrian.com) Cookie Jarvis is upset that IFOCE used footage of him in the MLE DVD without requesting permission:

This is the last straw IFOCE! It’s no longer a joke and neither are our feelings. If someone requests an interview with us we have to first call the IFOCE and get their permission so they can profit at our expense. If the IFOCE wants to put out a movie with us in it they feel we don’t need to be told. Is that fair? NOOOOOOO!

I think its time for us to have a spokesperson on how we are treated and the events that our portrayed with our likenesses. I believe it’s also time for us to have input in what we are shown in. Maybe it’s even time for a class action law suit against the IFOCE because we wont take it anymore. This is an outrage!

(From MosesNews.com) Cookie Jarvis has redone the appearance of his website, hugeeaters.com, and added a merchandise and recipe section.

The Boston Phoenix has a report on a screening of “JO” by Cameron Jamie. Japanese noise artist Keiji Haino provided a live soundtrack.

The show began in darkness. Haino chanted a series of ghostly moans; those and the votive candles lining the aisles made it feel like a séance. JO is a rumination on patriotism, with footage of a Joan of Arc pageant in Orléans, French right-wingers laying flowers at the foot of a Joan statue in Paris, and a Fourth of July hotdog-eating contest in New York.

Haino proceeded through mysterious plucking, ominous vibrations, chimes, turbulent strumming, Godzilla thuds, and rumbles. It sounded a bit like a slasher-flick score. He deployed 13 pedals to loop and layer the noise, building jet-engine blasts. He went silent while Jamie’s camera panned down a stout fellow’s jacket embroidered with a list of dozens of eating-contest victories. The seated crowd chuckled.

MosesNews reports that today is Cookie Jarvis’ 41st birthday and also marks a period of 1 year since Jarvis retired from competitive eating.

Several new videos have been uploaded to majorleagueeating.com, two about Cookie Jarvis, one about Badlands Booker.

Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane has uploaded a segment from Food Network’s “Unwrapped” about the 2004 pickle eating contest held at the Carnegie Deli at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9yONbnC3_s Winner Ed “Cookie” Jarvis, Don “Moses” Lerman, returning champion Brian Seiken and Arnie “Chowhound” Chapman are quoted and Kevin Lipsitz, Badlands Booker and Joe Menchetti appear in the background.

Skinnyboy has also uploaded a Food Network segment about the Hardee’s Thickburger to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a68SrzBiHhY

Brian Seiken has a commentary about Sonya Thomas that raises the possibility that the meatball contest last weekend was her final IFOCE event.

updated Brian has a brief interview with Cookie Jarvis focusing on his rivalry with Sonya Thomas.

A brief clip of the competitive eating category in Jeopardy with an answer about Cookie Jarvis can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob_Ny7qc7V0

Cookie Jarvis’ appearance in a minor league basketball game last season makes the “Big 10″ list in today’s Newsday.

IFOCE announces that Cookie Jarvis’ embroidered jacket listing his eating titles will be retired on July 4 in a ceremony before the Nathan’s finals.

Cookie Jarvis’ home page says that he is just taking a few months hiatus from eating contests. The headline is the same from about a month ago, so it is possible that Cookie’s webmaster uploaded an out of date version.

A headline on hugeeaters.com announces that Cookie Jarvis is retiring and more information will be available soon. (The announcement says that Jarvis will “put away his spoon”, so he could only be retiring from contests which use spoons )

Krazy Kevin Lipsitz will be Brian Seiken’s guest for the seventh episode of his television show. The episode is currently in post-production.

Brian has also made a commitment to improve his physique and health. Lets all support him in his efforts to lose weight. He intends to continue in competitive eating.

Seiken has also submitted two links:

• A show on radio station WFMU from early 2002 about competitive eating with interviews by Richard Shea, Cookie Jarvis and Andrew Goldstein can be obtained at http://www.wfmu.org/listen.php?show=2698
  (Real player required) The competitive eating segment begins at 1:04. The show occurred between the Glutton Bowl and the airing of the Gutbuster documentary (it was hoped at the time that the Glutton Bowl would be an annual event.)
• A blog entry by a Harvard Law student briefly mentions the MTV True Life competitive eating documentary. The author finds the milieu of competitive eating fascinating and hopes to write some personality sketchs of eaters on his blog.

Crazy Legs Conti: TopicMag , 2004:

I [Conti] lost in Boston to Ed “Cookie” Jarvis (360 pounds—“one pound for each degree in a Lazy Susan,” George Shea would note).

Steve Rushin: Sports Illustrated, March 6, 2006:

He [Kobayashi] dominates dinosaurs like Ed (Cookie) Jarvis, who weighs 419 pounds, or more than one pound for each degree of a Lazy Susan.

Here are some articles about some of Cookie Jarvis’ notable wins in his career

• 2003 Columbus Day Pasta (with video)
• 2003 Doodle Burger Record
• January 2004 Wing Title Rally vs. Sonya Thomas (Sonya would not lose to an American eater in a non-controversial contest until the 2005 Buffalo Wing Festival a year and a half later)
• 2004 St. Patrick’s Day Corned Beef (with video)
• Interview from before 2005 San Francisco Verizon wing qualifier

Cookie Jarvis’ statistics on eatfeats.com