Liz attended the Feats of Strength recording session on Saturday and has a report and gallery from that event. Tim “Eater X” Janus (sporting a new haircut), Crazy Legs Conti and “Hungry” Charles Hardy all broke the records they attempted. Pat Bertoletti, Don Lerman, Brian Seiken, Allen Goldstein and Tim’s friend Joe (who looks like Joey Chestnut) attended as spectators.

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Kevin Carr interviews Ryan Nerz at http://www.7mpictures.com/inside/mp3files/profile_ryannerz.mp3 (about 40 minutes)

Michael Smerconish interviews Jason Fagone at http://podcast.thebigtalker1210.com/wpht/9582.mp3 (about 17 minutes)

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You Tube has a 9 minute video of the final contest of the “Gluttonous Queen” program broadcast last month at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAm8AJ-RMfk
Natsuko “The Gal” Sone claimed the crown by eating more bowls of spicy noodles than the other two finalists: Iwata and “The Nurse.”

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As of May 12, 12:49 pm, two copies of “The Doughnut Dropout”, the book that inspired the eating career of Jed Donahue, are available on ebay (at prices of $7.00 and $4.85)

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The New York Times has a column about the trend towards extremism in gastronomic literature which mentions both “Eat This Book” and “Horsemen of the Esophagus” prominently.

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The Lefevres’ attempts to eat the famous 72 ounce steak at the Big Texan steakhouse recorded by Ripley’s Believe it or Not in 2000 will be rerun on the SciFi Channel at 4 pm (eastern) Friday This might be the first appearance of competitive eating on national cable TV. The steak contest segment will probably occur at the end of the show near 5pm.

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Philly.com has an interview with Jason Fagone, who has a strange response when questioned about the lack of Sonya Thomas content in his book.

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The Whaler captures Tim “Eater X” Janus’ thoughts as he attempts to regain his grilled cheese sandwich eating record at the Eats of Strength recording session in Long Island on Saturday.
The roster of eaters and foods for all five Eats of Strength attempts this weekend have been finalized. Cookie Jarvis and Joe LaRue will be filmed on Friday and Crazy Legs Conti will join Janus on Saturday. Hungry Charles Hardy will come out of retirement on Sunday. Free tickets are available.

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RealityTVMagazine.com has a writeup of last night’s apprentice. There were at most 30 seconds of footage from the eating contest.

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Ryan Nerz has uploaded his chapter about “Krazy” Kevin Lipsitz which was excised from the published version of “Eat This Book” by his editor. Nerz will appear at a reading at the Park Slope Barnes & Noble in Brooklyn on May 10 at 7:30 pm.

Newsday has an article on both “Eat This Book” and “Horsemen of the Esophagus.”

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Jason Fagone will read from “Horsemen of the Esophagus” at the KGB Bar in the lower east side of Manhattan on May 9 at 7pm.

Philadelphia Weekly has an interview with Fagone.

The Washington City Paper has a long review of Horsemen and Boldtype has a shorter critique.

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According to speedeat.com, Crazy Legs Conti appeared in tonight’s episode of The Sopranos in a Cannoli Festival. This episode will be rerun at the following times this week:

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In Monday’s episode of “The Apprentice” (9 pm, NBC), one of the teams of contestants will organize and promote a blooming onion eating contest at a college football game.  The episode will be rerun at 8pm and 11pm Wednesday and 9pm Sunday on CNBC.

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Just as the Beatles’ performance on the Ed Sullivan Show created Beatlemania, Rich and Carlene Lefevre’s appearance on Ripley’s Believe It or Not in 2000 launched their career as the world’s greatest competitive eating couple. The episode (#109) was recorded at the Big Texan steakhouse in Amarillo, Texas and both LeFevres finished the restaurants famous 72 ounce steak (two women, Tammy Hooker and Annette Havard, also finished the steak) The SciFi channel will rerun this episode on May 12 at 4pm. The Amarillo Globe News has an article about the taping.

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The Gothamist blog has a short writeup of the “Eat This Book” release party Wednesday night.

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Online registration for free tickets to all “Eats of Strength” filming sessions in Islandia, NY is now available online on the IFOCE contests page. The schedule for these sessions follows:
May 6, 1pm Don “Moses” Lerman (bologna)
May 12, 1 pm, TBD
May 12, 3 pm, “Jammin” Joe Larue
May 13, 1 pm Tim “Eater X” Janus
May 13, 3 pm Crazy Legs Conti
May 14, 1 pm Hungry Charles Hardy

Brian Seiken has additional information about the sessions and says that Sonya Thomas will be the sixth eater and might attempt to break Dale Boone’s baked bean record so the May 12 1pm session could feature Sonya.

updated 1:43 pm Brian Seiken has emailed and says that Sonya will probably not attempt an eating record for Eats of Strength and that Cookie Jarvis is a possible replacement.

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Nichelle Newsletter has pictures from last night’s “Eat This Book” release party and mini-cupcake contest results, which Eric “Badlands” Booker won by eating 29 mini-cupcakes in 2 minutes without water.

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The B List has a brief and positive review of last night’s party to celebrate the release of “Eat This Book.”

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

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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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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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