Competitive Eating

Meat Your Match

Watch World Record Hot Dog Eater Destroy 12 Hot Dogs in 60 Seconds

Watching competitive eater Takeru "The Tsunami" Kobayashi slam 12 hot dogs in under 60 seconds is a bit like watching National Geographic footage of great white sharks in a feeding frenzy: It's chaotic and slightly creepy at first, but if you slow down the footage, it turns almost balletic. See Al ... More >>

Free Ice Cream From Sweet Republic Tomorrow

Scottsdale's Sweet Republic is celebrating four years of delicious ice cream by giving away free scoops tomorrow evening, June 13th, from 4 to 7 pm. They'll also be offering door prizes and giveaways including homemade marshmallows, bacon brittle, gift certificates and Sweet Republic branded swag.

Peachy Keen

'Cue Ball

Piece of Cake

Good Eats

Joe Arpaio Challenges "Any Reporter" to Hot Dog Eating Contest. We Accept. Loser Quits His Job?

Joe Arpaio's Twitter pageGame on, sheriff.​Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's got a hankerin' for rocker Alice Coopers' two-foot wiener.Apparently so impressed with the two-foot hot dogs served at Coopers' Cooperstown restaurant in Phoenix, the sheriff has challenged "any reporter" to an eating ... More >>

Entire Jar of Nutella Eaten By One Man Makes Us Question How Much We Really Love Nutella

How much do we love Nutella, the crazy-good hazelnut spread where the mere act of smearing it across a piece of bread is akin to a religious experience? Not as much as this man. Furious Pete, a professional competitive eater from Ontario, Canada, is about to get 200 grams of fat heavier after conq ... More >>

Erik "The Red" Denmark Chomps 29 Hot Dogs at the Nathan's Famous Qualifier in Tempe

Jonathan McNamaraThe aftermath of Saturday's Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Qualifier at Arizona Mills Mall.​Next time you prepare to chow down on a plump, all-beef hot dog, ask yourself this question: how many can you eat in ten minutes? Two? Four? If you think that kind of lazy eating is goi ... More >>

Erik "The Red" Denmark Takes on Big Dogs at Nathan's Challenge in Tempe This Weekend

Major League EatingErik "The Red" Denmark ​Erik "the Red" Denmark isn't one to back down from a challenge -- any challenge. A former golfer on Seattle's amateur circuit, Denmark turned his attention towards a less conventional sport in 2005 when he downed a boatload of chicken in a San Francisco w ... More >>

Big Earl's BBQ's Leg of Beast Feast: 30 Pounds of Food, 6 People, 17 Minutes

Jonathan McNamara James King prepares for disaster.​​The average person's stomach can hold about a liter of food, or close to two pounds' worth. But who wants to be average? All over town, restaurants are offering up contests of confection, defying brave eaters to ingest more food than th ... More >>

Peach Cruisers

Competitive Eating: Zach Fowle's Adventures in Man vs. Food

Fork You

Grub on sweets for a good cause

This Week In Chow Bella:

Another week has come and gone leaving us to ponder the upcoming events that will shape our lives and, more importantly, our dinners out. But before we move on, let's have one last look at the blog posts from this week: Estate House to Be Replaced By The Herb Box Emily Spetrino-Murtagh, What Are Y ... More >>

Taco Time

Inaugural traveling foodie fest stops in Scottsdale

Pie is Love: Chow Bella and Roosevelt Row Team Up for a Pie Social

​We've been hinting for months, but now it's time to get our your calendars -- and your cookbooks -- and start planning for our Pie Social.  In case you haven't heard, Pie is the New Black -- and of course the trendsetters over on Roosevelt Row are on top of it. We're teaming up with the ... More >>

Ultimate Slider Challenge

Battle of the Bone 3

Dave's Doghouse Devil Dog Challenge

The Devil Dog The average person's stomach can hold about a liter of food, or close to two pounds' worth. But who wants to be average? All over town, restaurants are offering up contests of confection, defying brave eaters to ingest more food than they should eat in a week -- daily recommended ... More >>

Bone Down

The eat is on for chicken wing consumption

Las Vegas man smashes Flancer's pizza-eating record

Jess HarterGilbert mayor John Lewis, Flancer's owner Jeff Flancer and Miss Arizona Savanna Troupe award Thomas Gilbert his trophy and $500 check.​As the crowd counted down the final seconds of Flancer's 10th annual charity pizza-eating contest Sunday, Chiun "Jimmy" Peng had to have figured he ... More >>

Meat and Greet

East Valley BBQ competition heats up

Clancy's Saint Patrick's Day

GZA Heads to Gammage Auditorium for “Civil Disobedience WU”

Hawaiian Luau

June 1 In Blogs: Charles Ryan, MTV Movie Awards, Nathan's Hot Dogs and More

In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Feathered Bastard: Charles Ryan Attends Marcia Powell's Memorial Service, Says He Didn't Know Powell Had Guardian ... More >>

Lucinda Williams, Nathan's Hot Dogs, St. Vincent and Myst Over the Weekend

Lucinda Williams Plays the Non-Hits at Mesa Arts Center It takes some chutzpah to read your lyrics off a music stand. When you've been dubbed "America's Greatest Songwriter" by Time magazine (a publication that's not known for its music criticism, but nonetheless notable in any grand pronouncement) ... More >>

Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest Arizona Qualifier

Jonathan McNamaraA group of competitive eaters downing dogs at the Nathan's Hot Dog Contest Arizona Qualifier at Arizona Mill Mall. See more shots in our slide show. Matthew Ramirez stepped out on to a raised platform in the Arizona Mills Mall food court and struck the sort of body building pose tha ... More >>

This Week In Chow Bella

Another week has come and gone leaving us to ponder the upcoming events that will shape our lives and, more importantly, our dinners out. But before we move on, let's have one last look at the blog posts from this week: Now Open: The Parlor Fine's Cellar Closes Over the Weekend Chefs Cullen Camp ... More >>

Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest Qualifier This Saturday

Jonathan McNamara Get a good look at last year's mayhem in this Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest Qualifier slide show.How many hot dogs can you eat? Ten? Twenty? Sorry, pal. You don't cut the mustard, but I'm betting a mustard-belt or two that there are a few Phoenicians who do and will be do ... More >>

Native New Yorker Hosts Battle of the Bone

I have to ask myself, is there such a thing as a professional chicken wing eater? Because Native New Yorker is billing its Battle of the Bone as "Arizona's only amateur wing eating contest." No professionals allowed! (ha) Starting tonight at the Tempe restaurant, the contest will be held a ... More >>

Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Qualifying Round at Arizona Mills Mall

Wiener's Circle

Contestants try to eat their way to Coney

Saturated Phat

New Times' top DVD picks scheduled for release this week

Fish Face

Gluttons hunger for 15 minutes of sushi