Upcoming eating contests
(All New York eating challenges and contests in database)
Emizzle03 reports that Man vs. Food recorded at Port Royal Pub and Grille in Islip, Long Island yesterday.
Will Millender reports that Brian Kenny Pham won today's cupcake eating contest at Ivy Bakery in Brooklyn by eating 19 cupcakes in 12 minutes.
The New York Daily News has an article about tomorrow's all-amateur cupcake eating contest at the Ivy Bakery in Brooklyn containing a disparaging quote from George Shea.
Competitive goldfish eating “mockumentary” debuts
The Story of Furious Pete is not the only competitive eating film to debut at a Great Lakes film festival this month. Jared Mobarak has a review of Bad Fish a “mockumentary” about competitive goldfish eating which was screened on April 16 at the Buffalo Niagara Film Festival. The protagonists are members of NICCAGE (The National and International Community of Competitors in the Association of Goldfish Eating). The film includes footage from the Buffalo Wing Festival.
Defensive lineman Ndamukong Suh, expected to be a high draft choice in the upcoming NFL draft, ate at the Carnegie Deli in New York City and got a giant sandwich.
Tonic.com reports that a Nathan's finals guest judgeship is an item for sale in an online auction at BiddingForGood.com to benefit the Children's Museum of the Arts. The minimum bid is $340 and the closing date is May 13.
The Go! Go! Curry! twitter reports that Paul "Porkslap" Arcaria did his qualifying run tonight in 1:15. Last year's cutoff for the finals was 1:02.
Auditions for "Hot Dogs: The Competitive Eating Musical" will take place in New York City on April 17.
The Wall Street blog Dealbreaker will hold a Kentucky Fried Chicken Double Down Sandwich eating contest. The most notable feature of the new menu item is its lack of bread. update The contest will take place on April 14 and the objective will be to eat 7 Double Downs in 30 minutes. update Apr 14 The challenge report has been posted.
The application form & rules for this year's contest at Go! Go! Curry! are now available. Like the 2009 competition, the grand prize for this year's contest will be a $500 American Express gift card. The first qualifier will take place on Thursday.
Notclevr has a video and some pictures of Takeru Kobayashi's talk at the Japan Society's j-Cation. update The Wall Street Journal and jetwit have reports.
Time Out New York has more details about Takeru Kobayashi's talk at the Japan Society's j-Cation tomorrow.
The April 1 edition of amNY (PDF, page 18) had an article about three New York City eating challenges including the new 10 pound burger from 1834 Bar and Burger.
Go! Go! Curry! has produced a video promoting the 2010 curry eating championship containing footage from last year's contest including all of Dale Boone's qualifying attempt.
Qualifying for the second curry eating contest at Go! Go! Curry! in Manhattan will start on April 15 and continue on days ending in 0 or 5 until May 20. An unnamed Japanese competitor will receive a bye into the finals on June 5. (via Midtown Lunch)
The 6th Annual Brooklyn Pizza Eating Contest will take place on June 6, 2010 and award $500 to the winner. Entrants need to eat a large pizza in under 8 minutes to qualify.
twitter.com/sarapepitone: "Citi Field (Queens, NY) to Host Nathan's Hot Dog Regional Eating Contest on June 26th" update Scoreboard Gourmet has a blog entry about the qualifier
Takeru Kobayashi will give a lecture at the Japan Society's j-CATION - Taste Japan, a festival devoted to Japanese Food on April 10 in New York City. (via Broadway World)
Kinetic Carnival reports that Amos Wengler, "The Troubadour of Coney Island", has started a blog at http://amoswengler.blogspot.com/
A nine minute documentary about the 2005 Ruthie & Gussie's matzo ball eating contest can be viewed on the website for the Seattle Jewish Film Festival (registration required). (via fstopcarol twitter)
The Huffington Post reports that Alex Cota won last night's taco eating contest at Barrio in Brooklyn.
The Port Royal Pub and Grille in Islip, Long Island has seven eating challenges: a BBQ and a seafood challenge along with a burger and four sandwich challenges.
Louskum has several behind the scenes videos from the 2008 Nathan's finals, including the pre-contest eaters meeting.
RXMuscle has videos of the "Whack Pack" visiting the Heart Attack Grill and J & R's Steakhouse in Islip, NY: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
Kobayashi meatball record attempt
DumboNYC has a picture of Takeru Kobayashi at the Fulton Ferry Landing in Brooklyn where he attempted to break the Guinness eating record of 26 meatballs in 1 minute.
update Gothamist has a blog entry with pictures.
update #2 DumboNYC has a blog entry and gallery. A video is also available.
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