Eat This Book: A Year of Gorging and Glory on the Competitive Eating Circuit
Page 30
12 minutes
Sonya Thomas
Waffles
18.5 8-ounce Waffle House Waffles
10 minutes
Joey Chestnut
Watermelon
13 pounds rind-less, seedless watermelon
15 minutes
Jim Reeves
Acknowledgments
I would like to thank Alex Glass and Marc Resnick, who made this book happen. Thanks to the many people who gave sage editorial advice—Tristan Patterson, Ezra Edelman, Lisa Papademetriou, Dale Pontoosh, Melissa Matlins, Nicholas Arons, Javier Guzman, and Kaitlin O’Brien. Heartfelt thanks to Amy Esposito and Loukas Barton for the photos, and to Jeff Kulkarni for the interview. And cheers to my IFOCE people—Dave Baer, the Shea brothers, Nancy Goldstein, Mike Castellano, Mark Faris, Yesenia Ortiz, Alexis Schnieder, and Kate Westfall. Big shout-out to Brian Wilhelm and Stephanie Corn for their help with the Web site (www.eatthisbook.com). And most of all, much love to all the eaters, especially guys like Beautiful Brian Seiken, Kid Cary DeGrossa, Ray the Bison Meduna, and Jalapeno Jed Donahue, whom I didn’t get to cover as extensively as I’d hoped. Finally, a sincere rest in peace to Everett Scott Willard and Crawfish Nick Stipelcovich.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Nerz, Ryan.
Eat this book : a year of gorging and glory on the competitive eating circuit / Ryan Nerz.—1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-1-4668-0232-2
1. Gastronomy. 2. Food habits. I. Title.
TX631.N47 2006
641.01′3—dc22
2005045645