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Runners Burn Calories Even While Resting
Runners burn calories even when they rest [New Scientist]
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World's Best in Burritos
The winner at the "World Burrito Eating Championship" in South Portland, Maine, inhaled a dozen 18-oz. burritos in 10 minutes.
Gold Medal Diet: 10,000 Calories
Olympic gold medal-winner Michael Phelps fuels himself with a whopping 10,000 calories per day. What's for breakfast? Just three fried egg sandwiches, three chocolate-chip pancakes, a five-egg omelette, three sugar-coated slices of French toast, and a bowl of grits.
Frankfurter's Lament
A former hot dog vendor remembers the good old days of selling (less than sanitary) franks at Ebbets Field.
Cheese Chase
At the annual Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling and Wake held in May in the English countryside near Gloucester, contestants chase a wheel of cheese down a near vertically sloped hill. Competitors have been known to suffer injuries as they run and tumble after the cheese, which reaches speeds of 70 miles per hour.
Tournament of Cheeses
The Grub Report and Tomato Nation have dreamed up a tourney of 64 cheeses. View the brackets and vote your picks here.
Man vs. Bear
Oldie but goodie: competitive eater Takeru Kobayashi goes head-to-head in a hot dog eating contest with a Kodiak bear.
Beer Does a Body Good
Spanish researchers have found that beer helps dehydrated people retain liquid better than water following exercise.
NHL + Food Network?
What if the NHL signed a broadcast deal with the Food Network: "The first game on the channel will feature the ceremonial dropping of an inaugural homemade Italian meatball at center ice by honorary referee Mario Batali."
Mario Batali, Boxer
Sports: Mario Batali, boxer.
Olympic Tasterts
Sports: Chinese authorities plan to use mice to test the safety of food for athletes competing in the 2008 Olympic Games.
U.S. Open Eats
Sports: New York Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni goes to the U.S. Open and ponders the intersection of sports, crowds, and gluttony at the food court.
Chorizo Acquired by Brewers
Sports: The Milwaukee Brewers add a chorizo mascot to the team's sausage-racing lineup (more).
How Chefs Stay in Shape
Sports: Some chefs stay in shape by running, others take long walks to their restaurants.
World Cup of Food
Sports: Predicting the World Cup's second round teams based on each country's national dish yielded 10 correct picks out of 16. Alas, top pick cuy (Ecuador's guinea pig) has been knocked out, but will pizza (Italy) go on to win the finals? Via megnut.
Baseball's Best Burger
Sports: Krispy Kreme has teamed up with Illinois minor league team The Gateway Grizzlies to create "Baseball's Best Burger," a 1,000 calorie cheeseburger sandwiched between a sliced glazed doughnut. The burger has a predecessor in the "Luther Burger" (named for singer Luther Vandross, natch). Via tgc.
Olympic Eating?
Sports: Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas wins the World Crabcake Eating Championship by downing 40 crabcakes in 12 minutes. This follows eating 44 lobsters in the same span of time earlier this month. See also: "Should competitive eating be an Olympic sport?"
Sumo Diet
Sports: The sumo diet.
Pancake Racer
Sports: American wins trans-Atlantic pancake race.
Chankonabe
Sports: "He was preparing chankonabe, the caloric staple of the sumo diet . . . They form their MoonPie-shaped sumo bodies by swilling prodigious portions, along with rice, beer, and an occasional side dish of omelets, shrimp dumplings, and fried chicken. Then they take a long nap."
