Today’s episode of Man vs. Food announced that a live episode of the program will be televised from Miami on February 3. (The Super Bowl will be played in Miami that week).

update BurgerBeast relays a rumor that the program will be televised at K_____m. (There is only one restaurant on the Miami eating challenges list which fits this pattern)

update #2 The program description lists the 48 ounce steak at Don Shula’s steak house as another challenge.

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Travel Channel episode guide | slideshow | facebook gallery

Restaurants

• Randy’s Wooster Street Pizza challenge – Stuffed Pizza Challenge for 2 person team
  Home Page | Citysearch | Yelp
  Videos: episode commercial | segment about pizza
  Adam Richman’s challenge partner is Greg “The Great Moomsi” Maloomian – home page
  Picture of team wearing “Hartford Inhalers” shirt
  Video of Greg’s previous successful Wooster Street challenge
  Youtube channel with more of Greg’s New England eating challenge videos
• Doogie’s meal – 2 foot long “Works Dog”
  Home Page | Facebook | Citysearch | Yelp
  Hartford Courant gallery of recording
  NBCConnecticut article about filming
• Woody’s meal – Deputy (Hot) Dog
  Home Page | Yelp
• Ted’s Restaurant meal – steamed burgers
  Home Page | Citysearch | Yelp

List of Hartford area eating challenges in the eatfeats database

List of Bridgeport / New Haven eating challenges in the eatfeats database

Another Connecticut pizza challenge is available at Bang Bang Pizza in Norwalk. According to the restaurant’s facebook page, no one has finished the 22 inch pizza in the 30 minute limit and the only person to complete the pizza after the time expired is the woman pictured below:

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PhillyBurbs reports that tickets for Wing Bowl 18 can be purchased at ComcastTix.com starting Tuesday at 9 am.

In other Wing Bowl news, Adam “The Hungry Hungry Hebrew” qualified for Wing Bowl 18 by eating 30 latkes in 10 minutes.

update A page about Wing Bowl 18 tickets is available on 610WIP.com. Tickets can be purchased by phone or at the Wachovia Center box office in addition to ComcastTix.com

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Videos from last April’s cupcake eating contest at the Ivy Bakery in Brooklyn are now available on youtube: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3. A radio station interview with winner Nancy Cummings has also been uploaded. (Jo “Gavonne” Rose was another competitor in that contest).

The Ivy Bakery’s youtube page reports that its 2010 cupcake eating contest will take place on April 24.

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CompetitiveEaters.com reports that Don “Moses” Lerman won the latke eating contest at Zan’s Deli today. Paul “Pork Slap” Arcaria was second. According to the eatfeats database, this is Lerman’s first win in a sanctioned contest since the August 2004 Nathan’s qualifier in Saratoga Springs, NY.

update Don Lerman has posted a video announcing his retirement from competitive eating to his blog.

update Dec 15 Recent comments for this post not pertaining to the latke contest have been moved to the “Abuse Room” thread

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A press release (pdf format) announces that Bob Shoudt, Tim Janus and Crazy Legs Conti are expected to compete in the Peanut Butter & Banana sandwich contest at Isle Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi on January 9. The press release also says that additional IFOCE contests will take place at Isle of Capri casinos in Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa, Boonville, Missouri., and Black
Hawk, Colorado.

update Dec 16 The IFOCE facebook has more entrants: “Badlands, Erik the Red, Buffalo Reeves, Nasty Nate Biller (on his b-day too), Beautiful Brian”

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(Via Greg Avola twitter) The commercial for next week’s episode (Hartford) of Man vs. Food is available on youtube and it reports that Greg “The Great Moomsi” Maloomian will be Adam Richman’s partner for the two person pizza challenge at Randy’s Wooster St. Pizza. Previous New England eating challenges by “The Great Moomsi” can be seen at Grippa69’s youtube page.

update This will be the second national cable TV appearance for a bodybuilding.com member in ten days. “Furious” Pete Czerwinski appeared on last Sunday’s episode of “Humanly Impossible” on the National Geographic Channel.

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Travel Channel episode guide | slideshow

• RU Hungry Grease Trucks challenge – 5 fat sandwiches
  Yelp | Facebook
  Extreme Pigouts segment about grease trucks
  Rutgers student newspaper article about recording (contains spoilers)
• Harold’s New York Deli meal – triple decker sandwich
  Home Page | Citysearch | Yelp | flickr gallery
  Episode clip about triple decker sandwich
  2008 New York Times article
• Stuff Yer Face meal – giant stromboli
  Homepage | Citysearch | Yelp

List of north New Jersey eating challenges in the eatfeats database.

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