EATING RUMORS & GOSSIP

Perhaps the culmination of our nation’s great experiment, the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest has become America’s top Independence Day sporting event. Joey Chestnut, then, might be the most American of competitors, having won the prestigious championship sansabelt nine times heading into the 2017 edition of the event. He’s outpaced the competition each year, and had his...

Juliet Lee, barely 5-foot-5 and a mere 100 pounds, doesn’t just have a knack for eating hot dogs — she’s one of the best in the world at it. Saturday afternoon in Northwest Washington, the 52-year-old Germantown, Md., hair salon owner displayed her talents as one of 10 participants in this year’s D.C. qualifier for […]

 We’d all choose to be expert chefs if this were a perfect world, but the truth is many of us don’t have the skills, the fancy equipment, or, most importantly, the time – even during National Bake Week, which runs April 3-9, 2017. It would be great to prepare meals in a 48-inch Dacor Renaissance located in a state-of-the-art kitchen with all the time in the world, but some...

 The weather is warming up, which means grilling season is almost upon us. On your next trip to the store, don’t just pick up the usual packages of hamburger, hot dogs, and chicken breasts – your grill has so much more to offer!If you want to minimize your workload while maximizing flavor, opt for kebabs. While the word “kebab” actually refers to a variety of Middle Eastern...

FAYETTEVILLE – Ark. – Silas Herbert Hunt was born in Ashdown, Ark. His family moved to Oklahoma when Silas was young, but returned to Texarkana, Ark., when he was 14. Hunt took an interest in school, participating in many activities and graduating salutatorian of his class in 1941. He enrolled in Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical and Normal College — now known as the University...

Unlike some other desserts that fluctuate in popularity with the calendar (ice cream, we’re looking at you), pie is acceptable year-round, although the specific variety can vary based on the seasonality of ingredients and relevant holidays. With that in mind, we’d like to guide you through 12 different and delicious pies - one for each month of the year.

During the 1945 World Series, the owner of Chicago’s famed Billy Goat Tavern put a curse on the Cubs because, naturally, they wouldn’t let him bring his goat into Wrigley Field. Monday night, a group of competitive eaters (naturally) have banded together in hopes of breaking the decades long curse and 107 year championship drought by, you guessed it…eating a goat. And this...

Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. The best hot dog eater in the world misses being challenged. Joey Chestnut has won the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest seven years in a row. The last time Takeru Kobayashi won was in 2006, when he edged out Chestnut by just 1 1/2 hot dogs. Chestnut and […]