“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
“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 for Team RadioShack and U.S. national road cycling champion
“Allen Lim has helped me fill my gas tank for many years: everything from breakfast burritos in Georgia to rice cakes and scrambled eggs in the Alps. Some of Lim’s foods are scientific and others just feel good, but one ingredient was always present: passion from the Asian Equation.” — Christian Vande Velde, professional cyclist for Team Garmin-Cervélo
“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
“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 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
“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
“The Feed Zone Cookbook is the ultimate guide for triathletes who want to support their training with delicious, wholesome food. Each of the 150 recipes use minimal ingredients that you probably already have in the house, and are quick enough for weekday meals. Dr. Allen Lim and chef Biju Thomas tested their food on pro cyclists at the Tour de France, so you know it’s nutrient-packed with performance in mind. (Plus, although you’ll find your own favorites, it doesn’t hurt to know you’re eating Lance Armstrong’s preferred chicken fried rice dish.)” — Triathlete magazine
“[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
“[A cookbook] geared towards athletes that actually has recipes that make you excited to hit the kitchen…Creative, beautiful, and inspiring…straightforward, yummy, and yes, actually good for us athletes.” — 3/GO magazine
“The Feed Zone Cookbook is not just a cookbook; it’s a lesson about food. Allen and Biju teach you how to eat, when to eat, and what quality ingredients to use to make you feel better in training, racing and just life in general. This book has become a staple in my daily cooking.” — Kristen Peterson, professional triathlete
“The Feed Zone Cookbook is a dream come true! I’m on the go non-stop coaching athletes, teaching classes, and training and racing, so Allen and Biju’s high-quality meals and snacks help me perform my best and keep me from crashing. The Feed Zone Cookbook shows you how you should be eating.” — Tawnee Prazak, MS, CSCS, elite triathlete and certified triathlon coach
“If sport is your thing, the intro alone is worth the purchase of this book, as Allen shares complex diet theory in layman’s terms for all to comprehend. One can totally rediscover the kitchen as a performance-enhancing yet delicious tool.” — Peter Stetina, professional cyclist for Team Garmin-Barracuda
“[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
“Allen Lim has been an inspiration for the way I eat since I became a pro cyclist. He has always preached eating real, natural foods as they provide far more of what we need for energy and recovery than any supplement. 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. It’s all about what’s good for the body.” — Lucas Euser, professional cyclist for Team SpiderTech and member of the 2008 USA National Team
“I showed up to the Tour of California not knowing what to expect. When Allen and Biju rolled up in their RV to prepare healthy and simple foods, it was exactly what we needed. The food they prepared was a game changer and easy enough to make that any athletes can use the same concepts to up their game.” — Jason McCartney, professional cyclist for Team RadioShack and two-time U.S. national time trial champion
“I wish Biju had cooked for me all those years I raced because it would have made me faster!” — Axel Merckx, former professional cyclist, Olympic medalist, and Belgian national champion
“There are two important forces at work here. An elegantly simple, practical application of macro- and micronutrients, and how they are used by our bodies. This is the wizardry of Dr. Lim. Chef Biju [contributes] romantic notions of taste; the use of our most familiar, simple ingredients; and a measured, sure-handed confidence in the kitchen. These elements are all brought together in a whirling, laughing, steaming, sizzling crescendo of an athlete’s most favorite thing: food.” — Jason Donald, professional cyclist for Kelly Benefit Strategies-OptumHealth
“The Feed Zone Cookbook has become the new bible for racers, who now pound homemade rice cakes on rides, host dinner parties featuring recipes from the cookbook, and spend hefty chunks of time talking nutrition and about the importance of eating real foods, especially bacon.” — Embrocation Cycling Journal
“Anyone can train when things are going well, but only a true champion can train when everything is going wrong. Similarly, eating healthy isn’t always easy, but a healthy diet is fundamental to peak performance. The Feed Zone Cookbook will help you eat right.” — Ian D. MacGregor, former professional cyclist for Kelly Benefit Strategies-OptumHealth
“This is a must-have, essential cookbook for any endurance athlete….Anyone who is serious about training and racing—on any level—knows the huge performance advantages of fresh, healthy, nutritious food and [The Feed Zone Cookbook] will no doubt become the athlete’s cookbook Bible.” — Twisted Spoke
“Biju is a self-taught chef who now works closely with Team RadioShack. He has spent the majority of his life preparing simple, yet highly nutritious food fit for the most demanding sport in the world. After flipping through a few pages of The Feed Zone Cookbook, it became apparent that just putting some thought into your next meal is all that is needed. [The book requires] no fancy ingredients or expensive products; you don’t even need a lot of time. Not only will you start to see huge improvements with your workouts on the bike, you’ll even improve your mood all around. After all, you are what you eat.” — Craig Lewis for NBC Sports
“This book can inspire even the most poorly nourished athlete to learn how to cook with healthy and simple ingredients.” — Lora Erickson, BlondeRunner.com
“The Feed Zone Cookbook… is simple and very readable. I didn’t come across an ingredient that I had to google, or a prep time greater than 30 minutes.” — Oregon Live