Eat This Book: A Year of Gluttony and Glory on the Competitive Eating Circuit
Ryan Nerz, . . St. Martin's/Griffin, $14.95 (308pp) ISBN 978-0-312-33968-5
With barbecue sauce–soaked tongue planted firmly in cheek, Nerz chronicles his amusing adventures in the perverse, repellent, strangely heroic world of "competitive eating." Having moved beyond county fair pie-eating contests, competitive eating is now a global challenge involving national pride, superstars and, in 2005, $200,000 in prize money. Freelance journalist Nerz falls in with the denizens of this world while covering the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog–Eating Contest for the
Reviewed on: 01/30/2006
Genre: Nonfiction
Open Ebook - 320 pages - 978-1-4668-0232-2