New Feed Zone Table Cookbook Joins the Best-Selling Feed Zone Series

Science shows that we are who we eat with. Enjoying meals with friends and family makes as much difference to our well-being as people-and our performance as athletes-as the foods we choose. That's the message of a new cookbook, Feed Zone Table: Family-Style Meals to Nourish Life and Sport, by chef Biju Thomas and Dr. Allen Lim, which is now available in bookstores, specialty retailers, and online. Preview the book at www.feedzonecookbook.com. Request media copies, recipes, and interviews from Dave Trendler at VeloPress through dtrendler@competitorgroup.com.

The daily life of the professional athlete is filled with training, competition, travel, and other commitments. It's an isolating lifestyle and one that complicates an athlete's relationship with food. During his work with elite professional athletes, Dr. Lim saw athletes cut off from friends and family by circumstance and by choice. Those who found success were the ones who developed social connections, team spirit, and a sense of belonging that began during training and culminated at dinner, the most social meal of the day. When the hard work of the day was done, it was dinnertime that reinforced the communal bonds that we all crave.

In Feed Zone Table, Biju and Allen offer more than 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 lineup of drinks, starters, main courses, side dishes, fresh sauces, and desserts. Biju introduces easy techniques for making flavorful food that's fun to prepare and share.


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Enjoying dinnertime and eating well will nourish you, your family and friends, and your sports performance. Dr. Lim shares new research on how social meals benefit us physically and emotionally. 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.

Recommended Stories for Feed Zone Table:

1. Social Fuel: How enjoying meals with others benefits us physically and emotionally.
2. We Are Who We Eat With: Social meals may benefit us as much as eating healthy foods.
3. The French Paradox Solved: Is eating together the key to health?
4. Feed Zone Table Recipes: 20 recipes are available for republication. Request from Dave Trendler at VeloPress.
5. The Dangers of Eating Alone: Shared meals reduce isolation and boost happiness.
6. The Pleasures of Unfussy Cooking: It's not rocket science; it's just dinner! Inspire dinnertime with fun-to-share dishes.
7. Simple Ways to Cook for Friends and Family: Being a good cook starts with being a good eater.

Feed Zone Table adds 100 new recipes to the popular Feed Zone series which includes best-selling cookbooks for athletes The Feed Zone Cookbook and Feed Zone Portables.


Photo courtesy of Competitor Group

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
Nutrition Facts for All Recipes
Index

Feed Zone Table: Family-Style Meals to Nourish Life and Sport
Biju Thomas and Allen Lim
Hardcover with full-color interior. More than 200 photographs.
6 5/8" x 8 1/4", 336 pp., $24.95, 9781937715403
Available now in bookstores, specialty sports stores, and online at velopress.com/feedzone.

Biju Thomas is a professional chef with a passion for feeding people good food. He has cooked for some of cycling's top athletes and teams, teaching pro athletes how to enjoy preparing fresh, healthy meals. Biju has appeared on the Food Network and has founded the fast-growing Little Curry Shop chain of fast-casual restaurants.

Dr. Allen Lim is an exercise physiologist who works with top athletes from cycling, climbing, and ultrarunning. He is the cofounder of Skratch Labs, a start-up with an ambitious goal: to help people take better care of themselves and their families.