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Eat This Book release party May 3

Reminder: The release party for “Eat This Book” will be May 3 from 7pm to 9pm at the Delancey rooftop in the lower east side of Manhattan. Admission is free.

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New Poll: Favorite beverage to drink while competing in an eating contest

Crazy Legs Conti’s favorite beverage to drink during an eating contest is National Bohemian beer based on the Baltimore crabcake contest. The new poll question asks what to you prefer to drink while competing in an eating contest.

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Urban Honking crabcakes writeup

Liz has uploaded her writeup and gallery of Saturday’s crabcake contest in Baltimore.

According to Liz, Sonya will attend the Philadelphia qualifer (which Joey Chestnut also apparently intends to compete in) and not the Norfolk qualifier she won last year.

Liz also has instructions on how to attend the taping of Don Moses Lerman’s attempt at the bologna record on Saturday. Tickets are needed, but free.

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BB TV #9: Big Brian Subich

The 9th episode of Brian Seiken’s television series, featuring “Big” Brian Subich, is now available at beautifulbrian.com. The website also has an account of Ryan Nerz’s book signing last week and a message from Cookie Jarvis claiming that Joe LaRue’s sweet corn record set last Sunday was not judged properly.

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“Horsemen … ” excerpt available

An excerpt from “Horsemen of the Esophagus” about Sonya Thomas’ record setting victory in the 2005 Acme oyster contest has been uploaded to jasonfagone.com.

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Sweet corn updated results & articles

Updated results for the sweet corn contest at the Sweet Corn Festival in Palm Beach, FL

1. 34 ears “Jammin” Joe LaRue in 12 minutes
2. 30 ears by Jason Smith
3. 28 ears by Bryan “the Lion” Miller

The Sun Sentinel and the Palm Beach Post have articles about the contest.

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Baltimore Sun Sonya Thomas column

(Thanks Chip Simpson) Kevin Cowherd, the humor columnist for the Baltimore Sun, has a column about Sonya Thomas’ winning performance at the crabcake contest at the Baltimore Waterfront Festival on Saturday.

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Si’s Rick Reilly hopes to enter eating contest

At the end of this interview in the Arizona State paper, Sports Illustrated columnist Rick Reilly praises competitive eating and announces his desire to enter an eating contest.

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5 eating contests on Emeril Live

I was expecting only one eating contest at the end of tonight’s episode of Emeril Live, but there were five. Bob Shoudt, Tim Janus and Crazy Legs had a hot sauce eating contest, a po boy sandwich eating contest, a piri piri carne spart competition and a habanero sorbet eating contest. There was also a piri piri carne spart contest for audience members. The episode will reair at 3 am if you want to record it (it will also air at 8pm in the pacific time zone)

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Sweet corn results

from IFOCE.com & Brian Seiken

1. 34 ears “Jammin” Joe LaRue in 12 minutes (breaks Cookie Jarvis’ 2004 record by .5 ear)
2. 30 ears Jay Smith
3. 28 ears Larry McNeil

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Philadelphia City Paper on Horsemen …

The Philadelphia City Paper has a short column about “Horsemen of the Esophagus” by Jason Fagone.

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Baltimore Sun crabcakes report

The Baltimore Sun has a report on the Baltimore Waterfront Festival and its crabcake contest. Crazy Legs Conti’s choice of beverage is mentioned.

Megamunch also has a very good contest writeup.

A Japanese blog has a few pictures.

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Humble Bob & Eater X to appear on Emeril Live

According to IFOCE’s writeup of the Baltimore crabcake contest, “Humble” Bob Shoudt and Tim “Eater X” Janus will appear on “Emeril Live” on the Food Network Sunday at 8 pm ET/PT. The episode, “Red Hot Kitchen”, will be repeated at 3 am ET/PT.

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Crazy Legs Conti’s Sunrise report

Crazy Legs Conti has posted his account of the controversial Nathan’s qualifier he won two weeks ago in Sunrise, Florida, along with recollections of other notable contests from his career, on his website.

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Baltimore crabcakes results

from http://urbanhonking.com/digest

1. Sonya Thomas 46
2. Chip Simpson 39
3. “Humble” Bob Shoudt 38
4. Tim “Eater X” Janus 37
5. Jim Reeves29 1/2
6. David “Brickhouse” Braunstein

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New InHD series

ifoce.com reports that a new series for InHD will be filmed starting on May 6 at a buffet in Islandia, NY. In the series, an individual eater will attempt to break an established mark. In the first episode, Don “Moses” Lerman will attempt to break Allan Goldstein’s bologna record of 2.41 pounds of bologna in 6 minutes.

beautifulbrian.com has more information about the series. Other eaters who will attempt to break records are Crazy Legs Conti, Charles Hardy, Joe LaRue, Sonya Thomas & Tim Janus. There will be profiles of non-competing eaters like the LeFevres and Joey Chestnut.

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Rutgers U pizza contest

The Rutgers University student paper reports that Christine Ma won a pizza eating contest by eating almost an entire pizza in an unspecified period of time.

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Baltimore crabcakes list of entrants

The website for the Baltimore Waterfront Festival has a full list of expected entrants for tomorrow’s crabcake eating contest. Bob Shoudt said on The Buffet that he will compete despite not being listed.

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Highest of accolades to The Whaler

I would like to commend The Whaler for writing the greatest post ever about the dangers of overcongratulation.

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Princeton U hot dog eating contest and column

The Princeton University student newspaper has a pro competitive eating column which promotes a hot dog eating contest to be held May 2. The column does not mention Kate Stelnick, the Princeton region’s most famous competitive eater, or the June 23 Nathan’s qualifier in greater Princeton (Molly Pitcher Travel Plaza) in which Charles Hardy Jr. will make his debut.

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Sun Sentinel sweet corn contest preview

The Sun Sentinel has a preview of Sunday’s sweet corn eating contest at the Sweet Corn Fiesta in Palm Beach, Florida.

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Eat This Book party May 3

A party to celebrate the release of “Eat This Book” by Ryan Nerz will be held on May 3 from 7pm-9pm at the Delancey Rooftop (168 Delancey Street) in the Lower East Side New York City. Admission is free and cupcakes will be served.

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“Apprentice” contestants to organize an eating contest

The Orthodox Apprentice blog reports that one of the teams will organize a blooming onion eating contest in the May 8 episode of “The Apprentice”

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New Poll: How will Kobayashi’s Nathan’s streak end

The new poll question asks how do you predict that Kobayashi’s Nathan’s streak will end.

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Jane Magazine article posted

Liz has posted Claudine Ko’s article about her participation in the Krystal Square Off finals and Sonya Thomas at http://www.urbanhonking.com/digest/archives/2006/04/sonya_thomas_in.html A photo album of the pictures in the article is also available.

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