Feed Zone Table ― Family-style Meals to Nourish Life and Sport

There is no single recipe for athletic performance. There are key ingredients—solid training, nutrition, and recovery—but there are other critical elements of performance that are less tangible. When athletes lead a monkish life, fixated on workouts conquered and miles logged, they begin to lose touch with the real world and the small pleasures that improve quality of life and, in turn, sports performance.

With family-style meals from Chef Biju Thomas and physiologist Dr. Allen Lim, athletes will enjoy meals that nourish both sport and life. InThe Feed Zone Table, Biju turns complicated recipes into simple steps and outlines the basic techniques that everyone needs to feel confident in the kitchen. Serving up everything from drinks to dessert, athletes will learn how to reconnect with friends and family over flavorful food. 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.

The Feed Zone Table adds 100 new dinner recipes to the popular Feed Zone series. Athletes will enjoy preparing flavorful, creative meals that will please a crowd.

Sports are often an escape from life, but The Feed Zone Table is a warm invitation that will bring athletes back to the table.

Chef 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 andFeed 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. Learn more at chefbiju.com.

Dr. 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.