Competitive Eating category

America the Edible book tour dates

Several dates for the book tour for America the Edible by Adam Richman have been announced:

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The new poll asks how many of the current IFOCE top 50 do you think have done non-IFOCE contests or challenges without approval after signing their IFOCE contracts.
Seattle Weekly reports that the Heart Attack Grill threatened to sue John Howie Steak for calling its 12 ounce burger the "Triple Bypass Burger". The restaurant agreed to change the name and is holding a contest to choose the new name for the burger.
Super Paul Barlow is seeking recommendations for his best dressed eaters list of 2010.
Adam Richman will appear at the grand opening of a Giant Eagle supermarket in Kingsdale, Ohio (Columbus area) tomorrow (free ticket info)

Man vs. Food October 13, 2010 (Knoxville) episode links

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List of Knoxville eating challenges and contests in the eatfeats database

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A 2007 video of a human vs canine eating contest has received a lot of publicity recently despite being over three years old.
The facebook page for Jimmy the Greek's in Old Orchard Beach, Maine has a video of Dena (possibly the first "woman-imal") winning its bratwurst contest Saturday. She won a trip to Puerto Rico. (via email)
LehighValleyLive reports that the "Outrageous Foods" episode featuring Clinton Station Diner will be televised on the Food Network on October 31.
A podcast and log of Pat Bertoletti's appearance today on the Steve Dahl show are available. Pat says he will compete in the Quad Cities loose meat sandwich eating contest and the bhut jolokia wing eating contest announced today. The prospects for an alternate competitive eating organization are also discussed.
The City of Lewisville, TX produced a video about last month's tamale eating contest.
ChannelCanada has the listings for The Story of Furious Pete. The documentary will be televised in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario this month.
TKolb13 has a video of the Jimmy John's makers vs. eaters contest held at the Texas State Fair on Sunday.
Maru501 has a video of Takeru Kobayashi attempting to set a Guinness record for burger eating for a Japanese television program.

Man vs. Food October 6, 2010 (Des Moines) episode links

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DesMoines.com article about Randy Santel’s recent trip to Des Moines, where he successfully completed four challenges in a weekend
List of Des Moines eating challenges and contests in the eatfeats database

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Furious Pete's facebook page announces that his documentary will be shown at the Flagstaff Mountain film festival on Sunday, October 10.
Youtube has a video of a hot dog eating contest to raise money for public parks emceed by Cameron McKirdy.
Matt Stonie has uploaded a video of his attempt at the Grandslam Challenge at Batter Up Pancakes in Fresno where he beat the previous record by over a half an hour.
The IFOCE poll for October 2010 has been activated and can be voted on at http://eatfeats.com/rankings.php. Additional names can be added to the poll list if desired. (Poll choices need to have at least one result in an IFOCE contest in the past 12 months).
An eatfeats IFOCE top 25 poll for October 2010 will be started in the next day or two. New eaters to be added to the previous list of choices are: Kobi Bauer, Sean Brockert, Liam Burt, Brian Dudzinski, Gabe Kassel, Gary Klucken, Andrew Kossuth, Larell Marie Mele, Aaron Osthoff and Dave Solomon (Adrian Morgan & Nick Bauer were previously added). Please let me know if you think there are others that should be added or removed.
The promo clip for next week's Des Moines episode of Man vs. Food contains a segment about the Adam Emmenecker sandwich challenge. Randy Santel was the second person to complete the challenge last weekend.
TheMadH reports that Gianni Russo, who appeared in The Godfather, served as the celebrity judge for the cannoli eating contest at the San Gennaro Festival. (The blog entry says that Russo played singer Johnny Fontane, but he was actually Carlo Rizzi, Don Corleone's son in law.)

Man vs. Food September 29, 2010 (Sacramento) episode links

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Jessica “Queen of Cuisine”‘s youtube page of eating challenge videos, mainly recorded in northern California
Stephanie Wu’s website about northern California eating challenges and contests
List of Sacramento area eating challenges and contests in the eatfeats database

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MLive reports that the Food Network will record a segment about the Fifth Third burger at the Muskegon-Rockford high school football game on Friday. 1939 Fifth Third burgers were sold in 2009 and 1314 were purchased this year. The challenge has been completed successfully a total of 483 times.
Val Bromann noticed that KrystalSquareOff.com brings up a placeholder page; the competitive eating content is no longer available.
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