The website for Doc Chey’s Noodle House reports that Dale Boone won a noodle eating contest in October. The contest writeup describes Boone as a “world-ranked professional eater with 20 world records in the US and Asia”

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Gelf magazine has a good report on the Nathan’s finals which equates Major League Eating with professional wrestling:

With its carefully scripted storylines and constructed characters, Major League Eating is becoming a marketing force. And with all the organized hoopla surrounding it, the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest straddles a thin line between sport and spectacle. In all of sports, that line has become increasingly blurred. Is the focus on Kobayashi’s jaw all that different than the attention given to Donovan McNabb’s right knee? Is Eater X’s mask any less intimidating than Rip Hamilton’s? Is Crazy Legs’ fame, thanks to his media savvy as much as his competitive accomplishments, any less deserving than James Blake’s?

The article has several mini profiles of Pat Philbin, Dale Boone and others. There is also a gallery associated with the article.

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The organizer of the Lewisville, Texas tamale contest sent the following email:

Would it be possible to ask eaters on your site to rank the following five factors in order of their importance in deciding whether or not to attend a specific event?,

Location of the event (i.e. host city)
Date/Time of the event
Type of food being consumed
Prize money being offered
How I am treated at the event

If not, I certainly understand, but as an event sponsor and host we would really like to know what steps we could look at to make our event better for the participants. Thanks for your consideration.

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BeautifulBrian.com has a tribute to “Krazy” Kevin Lipsitz.

Kevin also makes an appearance in the Harper’s article about Dale Boone when he travels to Chattanooga to take on Boone in a 2003 Nathan’s qualifier.

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A new book, “Short History of the American Stomach” will come out early next year. A description of its contents follows:

The extremes of American eating—our separate-but-equal urges to stuff and to starve ourselves—are easy to blame on the excesses of modern living. But Frederick Kaufman followed the winding road of the American intestine back to that cold morning when the first famished Pilgrim clambered off the Mayflower, and he discovered the alarming truth: We’ve been this way all along. With outraged wit and an incredible range of sources that includes everything from Cotton Mather’s diary to interviews with Amish black-market raw-milk dealers, Kaufman offers a highly selective, take-no-prisoners tour of American history by way of the American stomach. Travel with him as he tracks down our earliest foodies; discovers the secret history of Puritan purges; introduces diet gurus of the nineteenth century, such as William Alcott, who believed that nothing ought to be mashed before it is eaten; traces extreme feeders from Paul Bunyan to eating-contest champ Dale Boone (descended from Daniel, of course); and investigates our blithe efforts to re-create plants and animals that we’ve eaten to the point of extinction.

The author, Fredrick Kaufman, has a blog at AmericanStomach.com A profile of Dale Boone from a 2003 issue of Harper’s Magazine can be downloaded from that website. A transcript of a NPR interview in which Kaufman compared cooking shows to pornography is available. The release date is February 4, 2008, the same weekend as Wing Bowl 16.

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Youtube clip of the eating contest at Rutgers from “The Apprentice”
blog entry by runner up in the UK breakfast eating contest
North Jersey hot dog eating contest, winner ate 11 hot dogs in 5 minutes and won $250
“Mean” Gene Okerlund of the WWE opens a fast food restaurant and oversees a burger eating contest
CBS News article about the pumpkin farm where the US-Japan pumpkin eating contest took place (Joe Menchetti is not mentioned)
Howard University anti-CE (really anti-obesity) editorial
Kansas U corn dog contest video
Parody about high school eating competitive eating clubs
Branson, MO pizza contest
Evansville, Indiana donut contest video
Billy Blanks (Tae Bo) does eating contest in Japan

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NYTimes.com reports that Don Imus will take over the morning show on WABC currently hosted by Curtis Sliwa and Ron Kuby. The radio station says it hopes to find an alternate place in its schedule for Curtis Sliwa, a four time Carnegie Deli pickle eating champion in the 1990s.

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Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane has challenged Juris “Dr. Big Time” Shibayama to reveal his body fat percentage in order to determine who deserves the title of the most fit eater in the IFOCE.

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Liz has a report on her experience as Pat Bertoletti’s counter at the Square Off finals on the Krystal Lover blog

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Megamunch has a post on the date & site of the next UEPa meeting which will probably take place on December 1 at the Niner Diner in Nanty Glo, PA. The diner offers a 3 pound burger challenge which includes 5 pounds of fries along with a pancake challenge. At $5.95, the pancake challenge is the cheapest eating challenge that will be free if eaten under a time limit I am aware of.

Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub has fallen out of favor with some UEPa members due to lack of notification about the team 15 pound burger contest and confusion on whether the Wall of Fame has been updated to include the successful challenges at the last UEPa meeting at Denny’s. DennysBeerBarrelPub.com has an online wall of fame, but it has been completely empty for at least 6 months.

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Immigration Daily has named Sonya Thomas one of 5 immigrants of the week. The other four honorees are former Intel CEO Andy Grove, founder of Borland (maker of Turbo Pascal) Phillipe Kahn, Issac Larian, who created of the Bratz line of dolls and chess grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura.

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Don “Moses” Lerman reports that his nephew, Ryan Urban, has issued the following challenge:

Dr. Urban who off is the nephew and owner of record at Moses News .Com says ‘ I’m going to shut down Moses news .com says as an incentive and motivator if my uncle doesn’t lose 30lbs by Feb.1st He can say goodbye to MOSES NEWS .COM

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“Krazy” Kevin Lipsitz sent out the following retirement statement. MosesNews.com has a lot of pictures of Krazy Kevin.

update Kobayashi also has a tribute to Kevin Lipsitz

Dear George and Rich and all my friends in the Competitive Eating Community,

The time has come for me to retire from Competive Eating, after a long run of 10 years. I have enjoyed all the years I have been part of the eating contests and more important than all the trophies, TV shows, movies and prizes that I have won, are the friendships and memories I am taking away with me.

I have truly enjoyed every contest from my first Nathan’s contest in 1997, through all the years after that. During that time I got to travel all over the country, putting thousands of miles in the air and on the road, under my belt. Hundreds of memories will always be with me.

As one of the original pioneers of the sport, as it started to take shape and eventually became the IFOCE and MLE, I was proud to be there at the very beginning, when some of the legends such as Ed Kratchie and Curtis Sliwa, Mike Devito and Hirofumi Nakajima were still active and at the top of their game. I remember very vividly when I sent Curtis Sliwa into permanent retirement at the 2000 Carnegie Deli- United Pickle International Championship. Fortunately, Curtis took it in stride and it was not awkward everytime I ran into him in later years.
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Emailed by Badlands Booker:

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