The Feed Zone Cookbook: Fast and Flavorful Food for Athletes

by Biju Thomas, Allen Lim

Overview

The Feed Zone Cookbook offers 150 athlete-friendly recipes that are simple, delicious, and easy to prepare.

When Dr. Allen Lim left the lab to work with pro cyclists, he found a peloton weary of food. For years the sport’s elite athletes had been underperforming on bland fare and processed bars and gels. Science held few easy answers for nutrition in the real world, where hungry athletes must buy ingredients; make meals; and enjoy eating before, during, and after each workout, day after day.

So Lim set out to make eating delicious and practical. His journey began with his mom, took him inside the kitchens of the Tour de France, and delivered him to a dinner party where he met celebrated chef Biju Thomas.

Chef Biju and Dr. Lim vetted countless meals with the world’s best endurance athletes in the most demanding test kitchens. In The Feed Zone Cookbook: Fast and Flavorful Food for Athletes, Thomas and Lim share their energy-packed, wholesome recipes to make meals easy to prepare, delicious to eat, and better for performance.

The Feed Zone Cookbook provides 150 delicious recipes that even the busiest athletes can prepare in less time than it takes to warm up for a workout. With simple recipes requiring just a handful of ingredients, Biju and Allen show how easy it is for athletes to prepare their own food, whether at home or on the go.

The Feed Zone Cookbook strikes the perfect balance between science and practice so that athletes will change the way they think about food, replacing highly processed food substitutes with real, nourishing foods that will satisfy every athlete’s cravings.

The Feed Zone Cookbook includes

• 150 delicious recipes illustrated with full-color photographs
• Breakfasts, lunches, recovery meals, dinners, snacks, desserts
• Dr. Allen Lim’s take on the science and practice of food
• Portable real food snacks, including Lim’s famous rice cakes
• Dozens of quick-prep meals for before and after workouts
• Shortcuts, substitutions, and techniques to save time in the kitchen
• Over 100 gluten-free and vegetarian alternatives to favorite dishes

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781934030769
Publisher:	VeloPress
Publication date:	11/01/2011
Series:	The Feed Zone Series
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	177,670
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Biju Thomas is a professional chef known for light, simple dishes bursting with bold flavors. He has designed the menus of many successful restaurants in Denver and Boulder, Colorado and has launched his own restaurant, Biju’s Little Curry Shop, in Denver’s up-and-coming RiNo neighborhood.

In 2009, Chef Biju teamed up with sports physiologist Dr. Allen Lim to improve the everyday diets and performance nutrition of professional cyclists and their teams. In the years since, Chef Biju has cooked for dozens of elite professional cyclists, teaching them the craft of cooking. His Feed Zone series of books with Lim, The Feed Zone Cookbook and Feed Zone Portables, feature 225 easy, healthy recipes and snack ideas for an active lifestyle.

Biju has been a chef for pro cycling teams and coordinated food for one of the sport’s biggest races, the Tour of California. Biju has also been the chef for the Dempsey/Del Piero Racing, a Grand-Am and Le Mans motorsports team. He also contributes recipes to Skratch Labs, Omega Juicers, and Map My Fitness.

Allen Lim is a sports physiologist, cycling coach, and a founder of Skratch Labs, a manufacturer of performance hydration mixes and the world's first active nourishment company. Beginning his coaching career with Jonathan Vaughters' TIAA-CREF cycling development team, Lim developed a method of testing for biological markers of performance enhancing drugs that led to cycling's Biological Passport. Lim was director of sport science for Garmin and RadioShack professional cycling teams and is the only American scientist to have worked and cooked for teams at the Tour de France. Lim has worked with dozens of top American cyclists to improve their performance and nutrition.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Levi Leipheimer
Foreword by Timmy Duggan

Introduction by Allen Lim

Breakfast
Portables
Apres
Dinner
Desserts
Basics

Appendixes
Index
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Credits

Editorial Reviews

"Packed with recipes that will not only offer healthy alternatives, but actually taste good as well."

NBCSports.com

"The Feed Zone Cookbook is something every athlete will want to have in the kitchen, not on the bookshelf. There is so much excellent data in this book on the science of eating it is easy to forget that the recipes are actually delicious."

Ultrarunning

"The ultimate guide for triathletes who want to support their training with delicious, wholesome food."

Triathlete

"The foods described are intentionally simple to prepare, impressively flavorful, easy to digest, and incorporate mostly basic ingredients that should be readily available Just honest-to-goodness recipes made with real food."

Bike Radar

"The beauty of The Feed Zone Cookbook is that it is practical and based on real-life experiencenot just theory...Let The Feed Zone help you find your way into the kitchen with enthusiasm."

Active.com

"Tons of straightforward meal recipes (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) that are both quick and easy to prepare. These meals are perfectly tuned to deliver maximum performance and optimized recovery."

Outside

"The Feed Zone Cookbook features unique, simple recipes for quick meals that will help fuel your workouts and speed recovery."

Men's Journal

A no-fuss guide to preparing good food that will satisfy an athlete's cravings and prepare the body for top performance.

Swimming World

"Lim and Thomas have spent decades working with endurance athletes to find the balance between taste, sport-specific nutrition, and portability."

Men's Health

"The Feed Zone Cookbook was a huge hit and probably the most popular book in the Canadian Running office over the last couple of years."

Canadian Running

"Tons of straightforward meal recipes (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) that are both quick and easy to prepare. These meals are perfectly tuned to deliver maximum performance and optimized recovery."

Outside

"The Feed Zone Cookbook features unique, simple recipes for quick meals that will help fuel your workouts and speed recovery." — Men's Journal

"Tons of straightforward meal recipes (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) that are both quick and easy to prepare" "These meals are perfectly tuned to deliver maximum performance and optimized recovery." — Outside

"A no-fuss guide to preparing good food that will satisfy an athlete's cravings and prepare the body for top performance." — Swimming World

"Lim and Thomas have spent decades working with endurance athletes to find the balance between taste, sport-specific nutrition, and portability." — Men's Health

"The Feed Zone Cookbook is something every athlete will want to have in the kitchen, not on the bookshelf" "There is so much excellent data in this book on the science of eating it is easy to forget that the recipes are actually delicious." — Ultrarunning

"The ultimate guide for triathletes who want to support their training with delicious, wholesome food." — Triathlete

"The Feed Zone Cookbook was a huge hit and probably the most popular book in the Canadian Running office over the last couple of years." — Canadian Running

"The foods described are intentionally simple to prepare, impressively flavorful, easy to digest, and incorporate mostly basic ingredients that should be readily available" "Just honest-to-goodness recipes made with real food." — Bike Radar

"Packed with recipes that will not only offer healthy alternatives, but actually taste good as well." — NBCSports.com

"The beauty of The Feed Zone Cookbook is that it is practical and based on real-life experience—not just theory...Let The Feed Zone help you find your way into the kitchen with enthusiasm." — Active.com

"Blending science and practice from Lim and Chef Biju Thomas, the book offers wisdom on food timing, counting calories and managing hunger, and help navigating your way through divergent ideas on diet and food trends. Dr. Lim's experience is just the kind of thing us serious athletes look for in a cookbook author. For athletes who train hard and appreciate fresh, wholesome food and creative fusions of flavors, this one won't disappoint." — LAVA magazine

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