A video of the Garlicky Greens contest held at b.good won by Gretchen Salyer last month is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNUxC3I8mUM. The clip has more content from the “Lord of the Rings” movies than the actual contest and provides only brief glimpses of the victor. One brief segment (capture available after jump) shows that Ms. Salyer might be the first person to experience the “spinach sweats.” b.good has an online newsletter about the contest.

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The b.good website has a picture and brief article about Gretchen Salyer, who won the Garlicky Greens championship two weeks ago. If Ms. Salyer is a female impersonator, s/he is doing a much better job than “Helen Haggerty” 😉

updated boston.com has a paragraph about Gretchen’s victory, which states she ate 2.9 lbs. in five minutes. The Harvard article says she ate 2.73 lbs.

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Justin Mih might have a female competitive eating counterpart in the Harvard community. The Harvard Crimson reports that Gretchen Salyer, a 2005 graduate, won the garlicky greens eating contest at b.good in Cambridge by eating 2.73 pounds of vegetables in 5 minutes, defeating last year’s champion John Pepper. Ms. Salyer is a former member of the Harvard/Radcliffe crew team.

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A gallery of Kobayashi at the lobster roll eating contest at the Phantom Gourmet Festival in Boston which I just discovered can be viewed at http://flickr.com/photos/travelingrhinos/sets/72157594301121345/

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Western Mail of Wales has an article about last month’s lobster roll eating contest in Boston.

Kobayashi has a blog entry about his trip to Boston which includes a trip to Rona Conti’s house and a picture of Crazy Legs from 1997.

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Takeru Kobayashi has a Boston trip report on his blog.

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Marketwire reports that Kobayashi defeated a team of four Bostonian amateurs in a lobster roll eating contest by eating 41 lobster rolls in 10 minutes. Marketwire says the quartet combined for 25 rolls; IFOCE says their total was 28. None of the amateurs are named, but I think one of them was Molly Zalcarian, who competed in the St. Patrick’s Day corned beef contest.

A video of the contest can be viewed at: http://www.covermaxcomm.com/lobster/

9/24 8:19 am – The Boston Globe and Boston Herald have articles about the event.

6:15 Sanspo.com has a Japanese article about the event

Sep 26, 12:39 am ytv has a Japanese news video about the contest

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The Fenway park area will not enjoy a baseball championship in the autumn of 2006, but it will host an eating champion. IFOCE.com announces that Takeru Kobayashi will compete in a lobster roll eating contest at the Phantom Gourmet Food Festival in Boston this Saturday. (The festival has already sold out) Kobayashi will compete against a team of four amateurs whose total will be combined. The contest is apparently closed to all other competitors.

Kobayashi has an entry about the lobster roll contest in his blog which mentions Rona Conti.

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The Boston Globe has a preview of the Italian Sauage Eating contest in East Boston, MA and the Battle Creek Enquirer has a preview of the Reuben Sandwich Eating contest in Marshall, MI. Both contests will take place on Saturday. The Italian Sausage contest will be held at the Italia Unita Festival, so wearing a Zinadine Zidane jersey is not recommended.

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Festivus Gastronomicus attended the Nathan’s hot dog eating contest won by Justin Mih at the Hot Dog Safari in Boston last Sunday and wrote a blog entry about it.

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The Daily Item of Lynn reports that Justin Mih (who is not named but listed as the 39th ranked IFOCE member) won the Nathan’s hot dog contest at the Hot Dog Safari in Boston Sunday with 15.5 hot dogs. Lynn native Peter Davekos placed second with 13 hot dogs. A Coney Island berth is not awared to the winner of the Hot Dog Safari contest.

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Ryan Nerz will emcee a Nathan’s hot dog contest at the Hot Dog Safari in Boston on Sunday. The winner of that event will not receive entry into the Coney Island finals, but New Englanders can use the contest to practice for the 2007 finals. Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the gate and include all the hot dogs, sausages and ice cream you can eat.

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from Boston Marathon Results:

Conti’s time of 5:04 was almost 3 hours behind the winner’s course record of 2:07.

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On his events calendar, Ryan Nerz says he will emcee a Nathan’s qualifier to be held at the Hot Dog Safari in Boston on June 4. Nerz says that IFOCE does not publicize this event and it does not appear on either the IFOCE or Nathan’s website.

The first qualifier for the 2007 finals, which will take place at Saratoga Springs on September 4, 2006, is another event Nerz is scheduled to emcee. The 2005 contest to be held at that location was cancelled.

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If you would like to see the start of the original version of the Boston Herald article that inaccurately reported that Sonya Thomas competed in the March 16 corned beef and cabbage contest, it can be found on the GoldenPalace website. No attribution is provided for that page and its second paragraph matches the second paragraph of the current version of the Herald’s article. Two videos of the contest are also available.

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Boston.com has an excellent and long article and photo gallery about Thursday’s corned beef contest (Thanks Rona Conti)

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Liz & Krista have uploaded their article about Thursday’s corned beef contest to http://www.urbanhonking.com/digest/archives/2006/03/post.html

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Brian Seiken has a video and photos of the contest on his website.

Updated 6:25 The Boston Herald has an article about the contest – Thanks Rona Conti (This article originally implied that Sonya Thomas competed in this event and has been corrected.)

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Results from http://www.urbanhonking.com/digest/archives/2006/03/corned_beef_and.html

Thanks Liz Kellermeyer

Pat Bertoletti wins his second corned beef contest of 2006 against a strong field.

Updated 2:31 Offical results are available on IFOCE.com

1. Pat Bertoletti, 5.75 pounds, $2500
2. Badlands Booker, 5 pounds, $1250
3. Tim “Eater X” Janus, 4.75, $750
4. Crazy Legs Conti, 4.5, $325
5. Pat from Moonachie Philbin, 3.75, $175
6. Krazy Kevin Lipsitz, 3.5
6. Erik the Red Denmark, 3.5
8. Ryan Hodson, 3
8. Ken “Mongo” Federighi, 3
8. David “Brickhouse” Braunstein, 3

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Liz & Krista of urbanhonking.com, who produced excellent writeups about last December’s meatball contest and last month’s grilled cheese finals are going to Boston to cover Thursday’s corned beef contest.

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GoldenPalace.net will sponsor a corned beef and cabbage eating contest at Ned Devine’s Irish Pub in Boston on March 16. This will be the second corned beef contest in two months and the third goldenpalace holiday themed contest since Thanksgiving. Since Pat Bertoletti won the first corned beef contest in Arkansas last month, the fact that the contest is on Saint Patrick’s Eve might be an omen.

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Two articles about the Verizon VoiceWing Buffalo wing finals in Boston have come out almost two weeks after the contest. The Christian Science Monitor has a general overview of competitive eating centered around that event. The Medford Transcript has an interview with Matt Kelley, who appeared in the finals without qualifying thanks to a exemption reserved for locals.

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CBS News has a video of the Verizon VoiceWing finals held in Boston Saturday.

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from “Beautiful” Brian Seiken:

1. Joey Chestnut 4.2 lbs
2. Cookie Jarvis 3.7lbs
3. Bob Shoudt 3.4.
4. Sonya Thomas 3.2
T4 . Chip Simpson 3.2

Sonya Thomas finishes out of the top three for the first time since Nathan’s 2003 I believe and is beaten by Cookie Jarvis for the first time in over a year. With her loss to Badlands Booker in the Buffalo Wing Festival Labor Day weekend, I wonder if the trauma of the 2005 Wing Bowl has resulted in psychological difficulties in chicken wing contests for her.

The Boston Herald has an article about the contest but does not give many results.

Updated 11/15 11:56 pm. Boston Globe article

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The Boston Herald has a preview of Saturday’s Verizon VoiceWing Buffalo Wings finals consisting mainly of “bib sheets” for Joey Chestnut, “Badlands” Booker and “Crazy Legs” Conti. Conti’s appearance implies that Kevin Lipsitz has definitely vacated his spot for Conti since Conti finished in the sixth position in the DC qualifier and only the top five will advance.

Updated 11/12 12:48 pm – The Boston Globe has an interview with Rich LeFevre about the contest (No questions about Carlene’s status are asked)

The expected contestants for the contest are
Seattle (Everett, WA) qualifiers:
1. Joey Chestnut, 4.5 lb.
2. Eric “Badlands” Booker, 3.6 lb.
3. “Humble” Bob Shoudt 3.5 lb.
4. Patrick Bertoletti 2.93 lb.
5. Jason “The Erbivore” Erb 2.9 lb.

San Francisco qualifiers:
1. Rich LeFevre 4.92 lb won in double OT
2. Cookie Jarvis 4.92 lb lost in double OT
3.-5. ? (Does anyone know who else qualified)

DC (Bethesda, MD) qualifiers:
1. Sonya Thomas, 5.75 lb
2. Tim “Eater X” Janus, 4.0 lb
3. “Krazy” Kevin Lipsitz, 3.85 lb
4T. “Big” Brian Subich, 3.2 lb
4T. Chip Simpson, 3.2 lb
6. “Crazy Legs” Conti, 2.9 lb. (will appear due to Lipsitz missing)

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