Meet Patrick “Deep Dish” Bertoletti. This 22-year old from Chicago is on the verge of becoming the world’s #1 competitive eater. Famous for his mohawk, headbands and wearing headphones while he eats, in the past three weeks Bertoletti has won the grit eating competition in Louisiana, the waffle eating competition in Texas, and just the [...]

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Anthony Bourdain is ripping Rachael Ray for her decision to be an endorser for Dunkin Donuts. Anthony Bourdain writes in his Bravo blog that Hung deserved to win Top Chef. Well Fed on the Town shares a list of the “Best Burgers” that was put together by Ellen DeGeneres and AOL. That’s Fit reports on [...]

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Wendy’s has a really cool new website and online campaign going on right now (hat tip to AdRants) based around their new site http://www.hotjuicyburger.com. On the site, you can create your own character (with the signature Wendy’s pigtails). The site lets you customize your character by uploading a photo of yourself, and even letting you [...]

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Today, Mark Robichaux of the Wall Street Journal examines a new book, titled McIlhenny’s Gold: How a Louisiana Family Built The Tabasco Empire and it looks like an interesting read. For those of you unfamiliar with the history of Tabasco, Robichaux explains: “Edmund McIlhenny began bottling and selling E. McIlhenny Tabasco Pepper Sauce in the [...]

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Oh. My. God. How could I have possibly missed this back in May? “Bang! My finger gun says you’re a filet now! Trump 1, Cows 0!” If you haven’t put two-and-two together yet, Donald Trump is pointing at a platter of steaks, because…gasp….he has HIS OWN LINE OF STEAKS. Which, according to their slogan, are, [...]

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Greetings So Good readers. I took a little break from writing to enjoy the 3-day weekend in NYC. But I’m back, and if you are reading this sentence right now, then obviously so are you. Since I’ve been off for a few days, I present to you a super-sized blog/news round-up. A WSJ article suggests [...]

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Karen Bernards, from McMinnville, Oregon has won the 17th Annual Sutter Home “Build A Better Burger” recipe contest. Her burger beat out 8,000 other recipes to win the $50,000 grand prize. What was her secret? She crushed up spicy Thai Kettle Chips and mixed them in with the hamburger meat. Verrrrrrry interesting.

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What can I say. Hung won. I can’t really dispute the decision. He seems to be an extremely talented chef. Yeah, he acted arrogant and like a little snot a lot of the time, but, he’s, well, Hung. That’s just who he is. He backed it up 100% and proved that his boasts of being [...]

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Just two weeks after a town in Spain set the record for the largest tossed salad ever, the Tijuana Restaurant Association is going to attempt to make the largest Caesar salad ever, in order to secure a spot in the Guinness Book of World’s Records. “The jumbo sized salad will weigh an estimated 3000 pounds [...]

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Well, Season 3 of Top Chef concludes tonight, and I stand-by my prediction that Casey will win. I think the allure of the first female winner will be too good for Bravo to pass up, although Hung is clearly the other contender (sorry Dale, don’t see it happening). In honor of the season finale, I [...]

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