"This is Why Youre Fat" news and stories

What do "dessert nachos" made of cookies and cakes, deep-fried dumplings and a loaded double cheeseburger have in common?

They were all on the menu for the This Is Why You're Fat "Eat and Tweet" challenge to celebrate the launch of the popular blog's new book of the same name (tag line: where dreams become heart attacks).

This Is Why You're Fat tweeted the locations of six Manhattan food trucks and the first person to send in pics of all six fattening treats won a party for 25 friends from the food truck of their choice and a copy of the "This Is Why You're Fat" book by blog founders Jessica Amason and Richard Blakeley.

See what folks ate after the jump.

We've long been fans of Jen Yates' fantastically funny food blog, Cake Wrecks, so we were mighty pleased to find the she's finally assembled enough disastrous misspellings, ill-conceived concept cakes and just downright nasty icing snafus to fill a whole book, "Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong."

Also on bookshelves this month, Jessica Amason and Richard Blakeley's "This Is Why You're Fat: Where Dreams Become Heart Attacks."

See our favorites from both tomes after the jump.

• Like mother like son -- John Schalkwijk took his mom's award-winning gouda know-how from the Netherlands and created Sylvan Star Goudas, which is now expanding to a new facility.
• Online food porn and gluttony with This Is Why You're Fat.
• Vikram Vij outlines the connections between wines and India, and shares a recipes for a delicious-sounding Eggplant, Tomato, and Green Onion Curry.
• With the help of imported birds from France, Polderside Farms offers top-quality chicken that chef Jeff Van Geest says "is unlike any other conventional or free range chicken I've had before."

Check out this delightfully disgusting new blog, This is Why You're Fat (subhead: "Where Dreams Become Heart Attacks"). Readers are encouraged to send in pictures of their most grotesque fat-on-fat food creations: Corn dog pizzas, seven-pound breakfast burritos, Krispy Kreme bacon cheeseburgers. Some actually look rather tasty - candied bacon ice cream, Frito pie, nacho burgers.

Others border on post-modern art - the Tower of Babel-like "Mega Double Stuff Oreo" with the creme fillings of three dozen or so regular Oreos stuffed precariously between two cookie halves, the "Turboconucken" - a chicken stuffed in a duck stuffed in a turkey. Wrapped in bacon. A commentary on the gluttony and greed of contemporary American society. Or just delicious?

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