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Steamy Kitchen, MSG Food Blog and Blast Magazine have reports on the eating contests held at the New York City Dumpling Festival last Saturday. A video of the women's contest is also available.
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.)
The New York Times Freakonomics blog notices that the price per hot dog increases with the number ordered at Nathan's Famous hot dogs.
The facebook page for the Buffalo Wing Festival has been updated with galleries from the contests held during Labor Day weekend, including the hot wing contest that Sonya Thomas competed in after defeating Joey Chestnut in the IFOCE wing eating contest.
Ivy Bakery in Brooklyn, site of a spring cupcake eating contest, seeks 8 entrants for a cookies & milk eating contest on October 3.
Joe Menchetti 6-peats NYC Dumpling Festival contest
update 8:48 NY1 has a video and DNAInfo has an article and slideshow
2:11 Will Millender also has the top 2 of the women’s division.
1) Floria Lee 38 dumplings, has won 5 out of 7 dumpling contests
2) Olia Zaitseva 34, 2009 winner
3) Shanei McMulley, won eat off
1:54 Will Millender has the top 5 of the men’s contest
1) Joe Menchetti 55, wins for 6th year in a row
2) Pat Viviano 40
3) Dave St. Fort 37
4) “Sunshine” 35
5) Will Millender 34
1:40 Will Millender reports that Pat Viviano won the first heat of the eating contest at the NYC Dumpling Festival with 40. The winner of the first women’s heat ate 23.
Brooklyn Brine announces that the Black Rabbit Bar in Brooklyn will hold a whiskey sour pickle eating contest on October 1 awarding a $100 bar tab.
NoHeroHere has a video of today's pizza eating contest and awards ceremony at the San Gennaro Festival in Little Italy. One of the co-champions was female. Will Millender competed in the contest.
Kluckr has a video of a wing eating contest held at the Village Pourhouse during the Ravens-Jets Monday Night Football game. Aaron Foss was the winner and Sarah was the runner-up.
Bill Cammack has a video about the burger challenge at Smashiess Grocery in East Harlem which requires a diner to eat a one pound burger in under 5 minutes
Maria "The Incredible Sulk" reports that she set the record for the Land Lubber's BBQ challenge at Port Royal Grille in Islip, NY, the site of Adam Richman's seafood challenge in the Long Island episode of Man vs. Food.
KatieDidntDoIt has a picture of a competitor (whose face is cropped out) reversing in the San Gennaro cannoli eating contest.
BuffaloBills.com announces that a 40 ounce steak eating contest between Bills fans and Green Bay Packer supporters will take place tomorrow at Prime Quarter in Green Bay.
US Male wins 2010 San Gennaro cannoli contest
update Sept 18 The Wall Street Journal also has a video
update Sept 17 #2 The Wall Street Journal has a blog entry about the contest.
update Sept 17 DNAInfo has an article and slideshow about the contest. Conti was not disqualified even though he reversed onto his shirt (picture #12). Dave Goldstein is called a second year competitive eater even though he competed in the 2007 Wing Bowl and Buffalo Wing Festival.
update 3:53 The rest of the top 4:
1) Dave “US Male” Goldstein 13 cannolis
2) Crazy Legs Conti 12.75
3) Sean “Flash” Gordon 11.5
4) Larell Marie Mele 9.5
update 3:49 The MLE facebook announces that Dave “US Male” Goldstein won the contest by eating 13 cannolis in 6 minutes.
update 2:53 The contest is over
The contest is expected to start at 2pm eastern. Crazy Legs Conti, in his first contest since the Nathan’s finals, will attempt to defend his title. Sean “Flash” Gordon, Dave “US Male” Goldstein and Larell Marie Mele are also expected to compete. Ed “Cookie” Jarvis will serve as a judge.
The Cream Cheese Festival in Lowville, NY (Syracuse area) will hold an eating contest awarding $350 ($200 to the winner) for two person teams on Saturday. One person will prepare the food, the other will consume it.
Daurizio's FatBoy Style Pizza & Catering in Schenectady, NY has a Fat Boy challenge that will award $500 to a two person team that can finish a Fat Boy Pizza, 20 wings, and orders of Garlic and Cinni Knots in under an hour.
Man vs. Food September 15, 2010 (Niagara Falls) episode links
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- Mick & Angelo’s Eatery & Bar challenge – 10 course pasta feast
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Episode clip about constructing the challenge
Bodybuilding.com forum thread about “Furious” Pete Czerwinski completing the challenge in 2008. - Riverstone Grill meal – “Bone in the Stone” 3.5 pound steak
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WKBW news video segment about the “Bone in the Stone”
Buffalo News article about recording at the Riverstone Grill - The Silo meal – “Haystack” sandwich
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Buffalo News blog entry about recording at The Silo
List of Buffalo / Western New York eating challenges and contests in the eatfeats database
Registration for Thursday's cannoli eating contest at the Festa di San Gennaro will open at 11am eastern today.
Kalbi vs. Naan has a report by the top amateur (3rd overall) in the pancake eating contest at Jo's in New York City on Labor Day. The two unnamed pros ate 35 and 25 pancakes to claim the top two spots.
Peta has a press release criticizing the Buffalo Wing Festival mentioning Sonya Thomas' victory in the wing eating contest (via Rhonda Evans) and This Dish is Veg has a blog entry finding fault with Cincinnati for holding a festival celebrating International Bacon Day with a picture of "Tiny" Tim Rauscheder competing in the bacon eating contest won by Mark Lyle.
The Sag Harbor Express has a report on Matt "MegaToad" Stonie's victory in the Bay Burger lobster roll eating contest on Labor Day.
A web page has been set up for the Chef One dumpling eating contest at the NYC Dumpling Festival on September 25 . The registration deadline is September 17 and the payouts will be $1000/$500/$300 for both the men and women's divisions as in previous years. A press release announces that Joe Menchetti and Olga Zaitseva will return to defend their titles.
The lobster roll contest at Bay Burger in Sag Harbor, NY can be viewed online starting at 4:30 pm. update Matt "MegaToad" Stonie won the contest by eating 11 lobster rolls in 5 minutes. update Matt Stone has uploaded a video.
Sonya Thomas defeats Joey Chestnut in Buffalo Wing Festival Championship
update Sept 14 Salon.com article about Teresa Guido winning the bobbing for wings contest (via Stephanie Wu).
update Sept 6 WNYMedia has a video clip about the contest.
Yahoo News has over 400 comments to the AP article about the contest.
Buffalo News reports that Susan Borthwick won Saturday’s amateur wing eating contest.
update #2 WKBW has an article and video
Buffalo News has a video
Joe Cascio has a gallery and a picture of the result announcement. (You would never know that Sonya had just eaten almost 5 pounds looking at the picture.)
WNYMedia has an interview with Joey Chestnut before the contest
update WIVB has a short article
SonyaTheBlackWidow has been updated with a contest report
4:16 Results announced
1) Sonya Thomas 4.86 pounds, record for 12 minute contest
2) Joey Chestnut 4.55
3) Bryan Beard 2.89
4) Eric “Badlands” Booker 2.84
4:04 The contest is over
3:52 The contest starts
3:46 Sonya walks through the crowd to enter the stage
The contest should start at 3:30 and can be viewed online.
SkunkPost has a video interview with Joey Chestnut.
Bertoletti breaks Black Widow’s Buffalo streak
update #2 SonyaTheBlackWidow.com lists Brian Subich as the #4 finisher
update Bill Myers has posted full results on his twitter
1st Patrick Bertoletti 5.26 lbs (finished in 5 Minutes 56 seconds)
2nd Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas 5.26 lbs in (7 minutes 31 seconds)
3rd “Buffalo” Jim Reeves 3.96 lbs (all subsequent times 10:14)
4th Eric “Badlands” Booker 3.5 lbs
5th Bryan “Big Sexy” Beard 3.46 lbs
6th Dave Solomon 3.28 lbs
7th Dave “US Male” Goldstein 3.1 lbs
8th “Big” Brian Subich 3.04 lbs
9th “Wild” Bill Myers 2.73 lbs
10th Mike Landrich 2.12 lbs
11th Andrew Kossuth 1.66 lbs
Pat Bertoletti’s victory ends Sonya Thomas Buffalo Wing Festival streak at 6 contests.
The Buffet Bowl at the Buffalo Wing Festival should start at 6pm and can be viewed online. The festival website has the contest roster.
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