The Feed Zone Cookbook: Fast and Flavorful Food for Athletes [Hardcover]

"Not only did Biju and Allen help salvage a disastrous start to my 2011 season and turn it into one of my best, they actually got me into the kitchen, cooking these recipes." — Levi Leipheimer, professional cyclist for Team RadioShack, from his foreword to The Feed Zone Cookbook

"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 for the Liquigas-Cannondale Pro Cycling Team, from his foreword to The Feed Zone Cookbook

"Biju makes cooking high-quality, nourishing food easy. His recipes are mind-blowingly simply, 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 for Team RadioShack and U.S. national road cycling champion

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

“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

"Allen Lim has been an inspiration for the way I eat since I became a pro cyclist.…Chef Biju has shown me how simple it is to prepare good, quality food despite the hectic lifestyle of a pro athlete. Together they have found a way to simplify the art of eating right for athletes without gimmicks or hard-to-follow recipes." — Lucas Euser, professional cyclist for Team SpiderTech and member of the 2008 USA National Team

“The Feed Zone Cookbook is allowing us to have our cake and eat it too… Chef Biju Thomas and sports physiologist Allen Lim are leading the charge in this intervention of the taste buds… Even if you have no desire to ever turn the pedals over in an attempt to best a competitor, this is an interesting read that is packed with tasty recipes.” — Paved magazine

“[The Feed Zone Cookbook is] packed with recipes that will not only offer healthy alternatives, but actually taste good as well.” — NBCSports.com

“The chapter on homemade energy bars, which are made from rice and eggs and other savories, is probably the single most unique feature. However, there's also tons of straightforward meal recipes (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) that are both quick and easy to prepare as well as nutritious alternatives to typical heavy winter fare.” — Outside magazine

“[The Feed Zone Cookbook] is a simple and readable book that takes high-level science down to a basic level. It’s about how to cook, not powdered drinks. It’s about delicious tasting dishes, not lifeless brown sports bars filled with unintelligible ingredients. Best of all, the food doesn’t taste like something a scientist would come up with in a test kitchen – it’s food that keeps you full and doesn’t leave in you a food coma.” — DailyPeloton.com

“[The Feed Zone Cookbook doesn’t] promise to be just another guide to healthy eating in 30 minutes or less. 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 the athlete on your list who trains hard and appreciates fresh, wholesome food and creative fusions of flavors, this one won’t disappoint.” — LAVA magazine

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 Lim 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
• Allen Lim’s take on the science and practice of food
• Portable whole foods, including Lim's famous rice cakes and more
• Dozens of quick-prep meals for before and after workouts
• Shortcuts, substitutions, and techniques to save time in the kitchen
• Gluten-free and vegetarian alternatives to favorite dishes