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In his ESPN.com podcast series, Bill Simmons occasionally mentioned his friend Joe House's stomach capacity. A new video series for Grantland.com will document this ability. The debut episode of "House Eats" was recorded at Emma Jean's Holland Burger Cafe in Victorville, CA. In a new podcast Joe House discusses the project at the 47 minute mark.
Jon "Super" Squibb will compete against a pig in a corn eating contest for an upcoming episode of Animal Science.
WGN will record attempts at the Beast burger challenge at Roadhouse 66 in Chicago Friday for an episode of "Chicago's best on Enormous Eats".
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.
A press release announces that Sony Max has acquired the rights to televise Man vs. Food:Nation in Africa. Episodes will start November 20 in South Africa.
The documentary The Story of Furious Pete is now available for purchase on furiouspete.com
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.
Adam Richman will be doing a chat session on ESPN.com today starting at 1:15 pm eastern.
Mayim Bialik ("Blossom") has a blog entry about recording the pie eating contest in last night's episode of The Big Bang Theory
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 documentary will be produced about a road trip to Toronto for tomorrow's poutine eating contest will star Micah Collins, Larell Marie Mele, Bill Myers and Bob Shoudt. (This will not be the first project about a voyage to Yonge Street (site of the contest) to seek fortune; an SCTV sketch from 1982 Garth and Gord and Fiona and Alice has the same subject.)
Yahoo has a trailer for the upcoming movie The Guilt Trip where (at 1:50 mark) Barbra Streisand attempts a 50 ounce steak challenge. (via I am Rogue) (In a 1966 article in Detroit Magazine, Barbra Streisand is called "the biggest eater I ever saw")
A Life in Reels has a script based on Jim Mullen and the origins story for Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest. (The work would have to be classified as fiction, given that Mortimer Matz, Nathan's Famous promoter in the 1970s and 80s, admitted fabricating the 1916 origins of the competition in a 2010 New York Times interview.)
Kickstarter funding for the competive eating card game Guts of Glory closes today. The project has exceeded is goal of $25,000 by more than $15,000.
The Guardian has a preview of Barry Levinson's new movie, The Bay, which opens with a Maryland crab-eating contest where the competitors die from a fish parasite in their food which has mutated to consume human flesh.
Youtube has the introduction sequence for the pilot episode of Vreet, a South African competitive eating show in the Dutch-derived language of Afrikaans.
Stephanie Torres' appearance on Friday's episode of The Doctors can be viewed online: Introduction | X-ray examination | watermelon eating contest
Stephanie Torres appeared on today's episode of The Doctors, titled "The Health Secrets of Guinness World Record Holders". Recapo has a summary of her appearance. Her appearance closed with a 30 second watermelon eating contest.
"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.
The right sidebar for the Kickstarter page for the competitive eating documentary Hungry lists an estimated date for the premier and DVD availability in August 2012. The project reached its funding threshold of $10,000 six months ago on March 13. update Barry Rothbart reponds: "Don't worry. The world is about to experience Hungry. And it will rattle Competitve Eating"
1998 World Trade Center qualifier clips in Footlong documentary
Footlong is a documentary (full movie) about “the social impact of the hot dog on American Culture” that opens with coverage of the 1998 Nathan’s finals (Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3) including interviews with George Shea, Gersh Kuntzman, Ed Krachie, Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa and defending champion Hirofumi Nakajima along with brief snippets of the 1998 Nathan’s qualifier held in Windows on the World on top of the World Trade Center.
Hold the Soup, a documentary about the 2005 Ruthie & Gussie's matzo ball eating contest, can be viewed on youtube. Don Lerman, Ron Koch, Brian Seiken, Badlands Booker and Crazy Legs Conti are interviewed.
The 72 ounce steak challenge at The Big Texan in Amarillo, TX will appear in an upcoming episode of Jeff and Jordan do America which will star to former Big Brother participants.
Guts of Glory a board game described as "a mouth-cramming, deck-spewing, competitive card game for 2-4 players set in the post-apocalypse" has started a Kickstarter.com page which seeks to raise $25,000 by September 28. ($3,434 has been raised today). A beta version of the game's rulebook and a print & play edition are available on the page. update Aug 30 Kotaku has a positive review of the game.
Full episodes of Man vs. Food can be viewed online at http://www.travelchannel.com/video/man-v-food-full-episodes
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