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...tips on reducing time wasted chewing, talk to the Harvard-based champions of last Thursday’s Rice and Bean Pot Burrito Eating Contest hosted by Qdoba. Nicknamed “Team Owl” for their final club membership, the quartet of Ryan K. Burke ‘10, Tyler D. Sipprelle ’10, Christian D. Wood ’11, and Daniele M. Pellegrini ’11 claimed victory over teams from Boston University, Boston College and Northeastern—the other schools of the actual Beanpot, a hockey tournament—downing...

Author: By EESHA D. DAVE, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Burrito Bros Go Pro | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

...Tuesday, things were getting ridiculous. Riders weren't just wiping out during their races (incidental contact with other athletes is bound to cause some spills); they were falling even during their qualifying runs, in which boarders speed to the finish line alone to determine their seeding for the actual contest. (Watch a video about training for snowboard cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are the Winter Games Too Dangerous? | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...true, it doesn't make any sense at all," says Andrew Friedman, a food writer whose compelling study of last year's contest, Knives at Dawn, came out in December. "It's a leap of faith. First you take the leap, then decide it's something worth doing and then you get obsessed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Bocuse d'Or Says About Culinary Culture | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

...After all, the idea of a cooking contest is downright bizarre. Why not have a kissing contest? Or a baby-naming battle? The notion of taking something so subjective, personal and essentially un-competitive as cooking and making a Mortal Kombat-style tournament seems, at least on its surface, patently insane. (The original Japanese Iron Chef took this as a given, and presented the contests as the whim of a wealthy madman.) If you've ever participated in a cook-off, you know how meaningless the scoring is, how opaque and arbitrary the judges' standards are, how random and unpredictable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Bocuse d'Or Says About Culinary Culture | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

...anything, cooking contests have become an inescapable part of our culture: Top Chef remains a ratings juggernaut, and The Food Network's Iron Chef likewise. Competition barbecue gets bigger every year. And even on the local level, every city is seeing more and more local cook-offs, from high-end ones like Cochon 555 that feature some of the best chefs in town, to pro-am affairs like the Cassoulet Contest or Meatball Slapdown, events I recently judged in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Bocuse d'Or Says About Culinary Culture | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

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