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Insatiable: Competitive Eating And The Big Fat American Dream Jason Fagone Yellow Jersey, GBP 7.99

I'VE seen the future, and it sucks. It also slurps, drools, spits and slobbers. Competitive eating is the American present and may soon be coming to a vomitorium near you. If Insatiable represents a glimpse into a culinary crystal ball, it is a deeply unedifying prospect.

Organised competitive eating has been around for almost a century, but only really took its modern form in the 1990s, when George and Richard Shea got involved. Fagone's isn't the first book to try to make some sense of the growth of this phenomenon, but it is by far the best. This is a fascinating, often amusing ...

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