Competitive Eating Book Blog
Jason Fagone, who has an upcoming book titled Insatiable Appetites: Competitive Eating and the Big Fat American Dream has a blog at http://eating.typepad.com/ The blog is updated about once a month. The book is not scheduled to be published until 2006.
Fagone has written a preview of the 2005 Wing Bowl containing a profile of Bill “El Wingador” Simmons available at
http://www.phillymag.com/ArticleDisplay.php?id=485 El Wingador does not have very nice things to say about Sonya Thomas.
A few interesting notes from the blog:
- The Japanese competitive eating scene has all but disappeared since a school boy died imitating the eaters in 2002. Claims that Kobayashi earns a six-figure amount annually from eating in Japanese contests are almost certainly untrue.
- Japanese eaters (besided Kobayashi) would like to compete in US events other than Nathan’s .
- The 2005 Wing Bowl should have gone into a second overtime at a minimum and Sonya Thomas might have won outright in the first overtime period.
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