The Awl has a list of eating feats in literary history beginning with Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel from 1532.
“Marijuanamerica” by Ryan Nerz released today
Marijuanamerica: One Man’s Quest to Understand America’s Dysfunctional Love Affair with Weed by Ryan Nerz, former IFOCE employee and author of Eat This Book, became available today on amazon.com. The official release date is 4/20 and a launch party will be held at the Powerhouse Arena in Brooklyn on April 19. The book is described as “one man’s attempt to humanize the myriad hot-button topics surrounding the nation’s worst-kept secret—our obsession with weed—while learning something about himself along the way.” Media Decay’s review calls Marijuanamerica a wonderfully written book. update BoingBoing.net has a review
Hemingway Room has an interview with Holly Dawson, author of Berlin’s Digestion of Joe ‘Python’ Leach, a story about an American competitive eater's trip to Germany for the World Currywurst Championship.
Eat This Book: A Year of Gorging and Glory on the Competitive Eating Circuit by Ryan Nerz is #3 in Buzzfeed's list of the 20 most awkward memoirs ever written.
The Chicago Tribune has an article about the novel "POW!" by Chinese author Mo Yan. The protagonist of the book is a meat eating champion who ate five pounds of steak in an hour to win an eating contest at the age of 12.
Don "Moses" Lerman was one of the subjects Franklin Foer and Marc Tracy, editors of Jewish Jocks, discussed on National Public Radio's Morning Edition earlier today. update Nov 24 NPR.org has a full transcript including host Linda Wertheimer's praise of the Lerman section.
Tim Ferris says he ate a Ben & Jerry's Vermonster challenge in 20 minutes for a section of his new book The 4-Hour Chef and that his body fat decreased following the challenge.
Washington Jewish Week's article about the new book Jewish Jocks mentions the section about Don "Moses" Lerman.
Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame was released today. The section about Don "Moses" Lerman, part of which can be read on Google Books, credits him as the innovator of competitive eating and the popularizer of techniques like water training. The book's twitter has links to excerpts and other information.
The upcoming book Jewish Jocks (to be released October 30) will have a section about Don "Moses" Lerman (titled "The Ben Franklin of Competitive Eating") along with other Jewish sports figures like Sandy Koufax, Mark Spitz and Bobby Fischer. (via biographies615) update The New Republic has a section from the book about Arnold Rothstein, alleged fixer of the 1919 World Series.
The Bookcast has a podcast of an interview with Ryan Potter, author of the competitive eating themed novel, The Cleaner. (First 10 pages | Amazon.com link).
"A Roman Incident", a short story with a competitive eating theme will appear in a transgender fiction anthology. The author, Red Durkin will discuss the work at Barnard College in New York City on October 18.
MyFoxDetroit.com has an interview with Ryan Potter, author of the competitive eating e-novel, The Cleaner.
Crazy Legs Conti participates in a video book club about The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan.
A Wall Street Journal article reviewing biographies of Colonel Harlan Sanders, NY Times critic Craig Clairborne and frozen food pioneer Clarence Birdseye has a paragraph about competitive eating near its end.
A 1919 spaghetti eating contest between Yankees outfielder Ping Bodie and an ostrich billed by the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce as the world's greatest eater will appear in the upcoming book The Baseball Hall of Shame: The Best of Blooperstown book.
Angie Romenesko has a picture of the page in the 2012 Guinness Book of World Records listing Pat Bertoletti and Joey Chesnut's record of 3 Mars bars in a minute set last year in San Diego.
Kobayashi outtake in SuperFreakonomics
The paperback version of SuperFreakonomics was released today. In 2008, co-author Stephen J. Duber wrote about attending the Nathan’s finals and dining with Kobayashi. The notes section of SuperFreakonomics reports that Dubner’s research was to be part of a chapter about how super talented individuals acquire their talent that was dropped from the published version when other books on that topic appeared. A screen capture of the notes appears after the jump:
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A suspicious death at a qualifier for Football Frank's Super Bowl eating contest is the case to be solved in Feeding Frenzy, book #20 in the The Hardy Boys juvenile mystery series.
Pat Bertoletti has posted on his facebook a page from the upcoming edition of Ripley's Believe it or Not listing his competitive eating results. A picture of Sonya Thomas also appears.
Publishers Weekly reports that the next book by Ryan Nerz, author of Eat This Book, will be Marijuanamerica, an exploration of the marijuana industry "in the context of his own use and experience."
"Furious" Pete Czerwinski is profiled in Body by Design, a book by Kris Gethin, Editor in Chief of Bodybuilding.com.
The Today show website has a video clip of Adam Richman's appearance yesterday to promote his new book America the Edible along with an interview that was not televised.
Rodale Books has a list of Adam Richman's appearances from November 6 to 18 to promote America the Edible. Cites visited include Atlanta, New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, Nashville, Austin, Cleveland and New Haven.
America the Edible book tour dates
Several dates for the book tour for America the Edible by Adam Richman have been announced:
- November 6, Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta
- November 8, Barnes and Noble, New York City
- November 15, BookPeople, Austin, TX
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