Research for All

Eating as Sport: Competing as a Food Fighter

by Takeru Kobayashi

illus. by Toshinori Yonemura

69 hot dogs, 93 hamburgers, 110 sausages…  you couldn’t eat that in a day, or even a week? But food fighters can eat that amount in ten minutes. Takeru Kobayashi has achieved notoriety worldwide for his epic achievements in competitive eating. In this latest instalment in the ‘Research for All’ series, he talks about his love of food, his travels around the world to join competitive eating competitions, and some of the most weird and wonderful dishes he has encountered along the way! 

21 x 15 cm, 167 pages, Black-and-white photography and Full-colour illustrations
First published October 2022