Feed Zone Table: Family-Style Meals to Nourish Life and Sport

by Biju Thomas, Allen Lim

Overview

In their third cookbook, Feed Zone Table, chef Biju Thomas and Dr. Allen Lim offer over 100 all-new recipes to bring friends and family to the table in a way that nourishes life and sport.

Feed Zone Table will inspire your family-style dinners with a delicious line up of drinks, starters, main courses, side dishes, fresh sauces, and desserts. Biju rolls out easy techniques for making flavorful food that’s fun to prepare and share.

Enjoying dinnertime and eating well will nourish you, your family and friends--and your sports performance. Science shows it’s not just what we eat that matters; eating together matters, too. Dr. Lim saw these benefits first-hand while working with professional athletes and shares new research on how social meals benefit everyone. Lim reveals why it matters--what science has to say about food, camaraderie, performance, and the pivotal role that the dinner table can play in an athlete’s preparation.

Sports are often an escape from life, but Feed Zone Table is a warm invitation back to the table. We perform best when we nourish our bodies and feed our souls. Bring great food and people together with Feed Zone Table and you’ll feel the difference.

Feed Zone Table brings over 100 new recipes to the popular Feed Zone series which includes The Feed Zone Cookbook and Feed Zone Portables. Included in the new Feed Zone Table:

• The Science Behind Social Meals
• 30+ Drinks, Starters, Sides, Salads, and Soups
• 35+ Poultry, Seafood, Pork, Beef, Lamb, and Bison Dishes
• 6 Meatless Dishes
• 40+ Sweets, Oils&Dressings, Sauces&Spices
• 15+ New Cooking Techniques
• Quick&Recipes, Nutrition Facts, Index

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781937716707
Publisher:	VeloPress
Publication date:	02/08/2016
Series:	The Feed Zone Series
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	48 MB
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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 Jason Donald

Preface

Introduction: Where to Sit, Social Fuel, Five-Ring Fever, Copernican Shift, Eating Together, Head Count, Diet-Health Paradox, Loneliness, "We" Versus "I", Cultural Dilemma, Nutritional Pragmatism, The Last Word

Recipes

Eat&Cook
Drinks
Starters
Sides, Salads, Soups
Chicken
Seafood
Pork
Beef, Lamb, Bison
Meatless
Sweets
Oils&Dressings
Sauces&Spices

Nutrition Facts
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Credits

Editorial Reviews

Thomas and Lim present 100 new recipes to reconnect training athletes with family and friends. Evidence suggests that when we are happy, we are faster, stronger and have longer careers, so it’s only fitting that Feed Zone Table refers to its recipes as ‘social fuel’. The recipes in Feed Zone Table require simple, accessible ingredients and little culinary skill, and are sure to tempt you back into the kitchen like they did our testers.

Endurance Review

While training often takes you away from the dinner table, Feed Zone Table encourages you to get back to eating together.

Triathlete magazine

The third book of the Feed Zone trilogy celebrates the joyand necessityof cooking and eating together... Beyond the recipes and new techniques, however, it’s Lim’s stirring introduction that will inspire you to cook, and hopefully eat together, with your family.

5280 magazine

I really am not a cookbook chef, but sometimes a cookbook manages to win me over. Feed Zone Table is one of those rare exceptions and the my biggest problem with this well-photographed book is that I can't make my mind up what to prepare as there are simply too many intriguing choices.

Slowtwitch.com

The focus of Feed Zone Table is the importance of nourishment, with friends and family, at a table... The ingredient lists are fairly short and the methods are explained in terms that even the amateur cook could tackle with ease.

Delicious Living magazine

At Ella, we are big fans of anything chef Biju Thomas and Dr. Allen Lim cook up. From Skratch Labs to rice cake portables to their cooking books, homemade ride fuel has never tasted so good.Their latest cookbook, however, focuses as much on good people as it does on good food.

CyclingTips.com / Ella Eats

"While Thomas and Lim’s previous two cookbooks were focused on improving athletic performance, the new Feed Zone Table focuses more broadly on healthy, family-style recipes. You’ll still be eating things in line with your athletic ambitions, but your loved ones will get to join you.

VeloNews magazine

The 100 recipes in Feed Zone Table can help you ride faster, but that’s not really why Lim and Thomas collected them. They want you to make these meals and eat them with friends and family. If you eat with others, you will be happier. And, Lim says, if you are happy, you will perform better.

Canadian Cycling magazine

Great ideas for athletes who love to share their eats.

Women's Running magazine

This addition to the Feed Zone Series is as much about delicious food as it is about helping committed athletes use mealtime to break through the isolation that often comes with a life filled with intensive training, competition, and travel. Of course, this hardcover is just as relevant for weekend warriors as it is for professional athletes. Sharing meals with friends and familyaccording to co-author Dr. Allen Limis just as important to our well-being and performance as the nutritional value of the meals, and this book promises flavorful dishes that are easy to prepare and share.

BIKE magazine

The Feed Zone Cookbook is full of recipes from Allen and Biju that epitomize the athlete’s two greatest purposes in sitting down for a meal: to optimize performance and to maximize the pleasure that comes from eating.” — Timmy Duggan, professional cyclist

“Good food may only be a portion of what it takes to ride professionally, but to me it has been truly life changing. Eating real, flavorful, and simple food was a revelation.” — Tim Johnson, professional cyclist

“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 Cookbook help you find your way into the kitchen with enthusiasm.” — Active.com

“After being introduced to The Feed Zone, I began to realize there was another way to eat that actually nourished me as an athlete.” — Matt Segal, professional rock climber for North Face Athlete Team

“I cook religiously from the Feed Zone. My diet doesn’t have to be boring or austere to go fast. In fact, I go way faster when I’m happy, and good food makes me happy.” — Lea Davison, professional cyclist, Olympian, and U.S. Short Track National Championship Bronze Medalist

“These recipes are easy, tasty, effective, and made with real love for sport and food.” — George Bennett, professional cyclist

“Biju makes cooking high-quality, nourishing food easy. His recipes are mind-blowingly simple, but their flavors and quality are as high as a five-star restaurant. Biju will inspire you to want to cook.” — Matthew Busche, professional cyclist

“Meals perfectly tuned to deliver maximum performance and optimized recovery.” — Outside magazine

“Exercise physiologist Allen Lim, Ph.D. and chef Biju Thomas, authors of The Feed Zone cookbooks, 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 features unique, simple recipes for quick meals that will help fuel your workouts and speed recovery.” — Men’s Journal

“The Feed Zone Cookbook is the ultimate guide for triathletes who want to support their training with delicious, wholesome food.” — Triathlete magazine

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

“The foods described are intentionally simple to prepare, impressively flavorful, easy to digest, and incorporate mostly basic ingredients that should be readily available even while traveling through unfamiliar lands. There's no overload of buzzwords at all here—just honest to goodness recipes made with real food that you'd likely eat even if you didn't pedal a bike for a living.” — BikeRadar.com

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