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Run Fast. Eat Slow.: Nourishing Recipes for Athletes: A Cookbook
by Shalane Flanagan, Elyse Kopecky
1. Congratulations to Shalane Flanagan for her TCS NYC Marathon win!! I am so impressed by her life and I was excited to watch the final 20 minutes of her race.
2. Yes, I do read cookbooks, front to back. Call me a nerd, but I am a good cook.
3. I personally wouldn't use this cookbook and I am very disappointed about that. I did take note of a couple of the drink and salad dressing recipes (I've been focusing on teaching myself to make good dressings this year) to try but that is it.
Why wouldn't I use this cookbook?
1. I have a grain allergy -- no gluten, no oats. Although recipes are tagged as vegetarian, vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free, etc., if something bready didn't have wheat, it usually had oats. Nearly the entire breakfast section of the book is useless to me.
2. Many of the ingredients are inaccessible to me. North American foods like kale, maple syrup, bison meat and hazelnuts are impossible to find on a normal supermarket trip. One time I did see bottle of maple syrup at a convenience store (!?) and it cost what I would normally spend on groceries for the entire week. Besides that, a lot of the ingredients are just plain expensive, like way out of my budget expensive. For example, despite being a South American grain, quinoa is a novelty health food item in Brazil and costs upwards of 5x the price of brown rice. We eat about 1 kilo of rice per week in my house, so that makes a huge difference in my budget.
3. The remaining recipes that fall into the I-can-afford-it-AND-I-can-eat-it category are really basic. Roasted veggies, marinara sauce, bone broth, hummus, stewed pears. Things that I used a recipe as a guide the first time I made it but didn't need one after that. Not dissing on ppl who are just discovering these kinds of kitchen staples, I started there too, but I'm 10 years into cookbook reading and I just don't need a recipe for those things any more.
I would encourage you to check out Melissa Clark's cookbook [b:Dinner: Changing the Game|30688016|Dinner Changing the Game|Melissa Clark|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1488427017s/30688016.jpg|51233796] as a more useful alternative.
2. Yes, I do read cookbooks, front to back. Call me a nerd, but I am a good cook.
3. I personally wouldn't use this cookbook and I am very disappointed about that. I did take note of a couple of the drink and salad dressing recipes (I've been focusing on teaching myself to make good dressings this year) to try but that is it.
Why wouldn't I use this cookbook?
1. I have a grain allergy -- no gluten, no oats. Although recipes are tagged as vegetarian, vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free, etc., if something bready didn't have wheat, it usually had oats. Nearly the entire breakfast section of the book is useless to me.
2. Many of the ingredients are inaccessible to me. North American foods like kale, maple syrup, bison meat and hazelnuts are impossible to find on a normal supermarket trip. One time I did see bottle of maple syrup at a convenience store (!?) and it cost what I would normally spend on groceries for the entire week. Besides that, a lot of the ingredients are just plain expensive, like way out of my budget expensive. For example, despite being a South American grain, quinoa is a novelty health food item in Brazil and costs upwards of 5x the price of brown rice. We eat about 1 kilo of rice per week in my house, so that makes a huge difference in my budget.
3. The remaining recipes that fall into the I-can-afford-it-AND-I-can-eat-it category are really basic. Roasted veggies, marinara sauce, bone broth, hummus, stewed pears. Things that I used a recipe as a guide the first time I made it but didn't need one after that. Not dissing on ppl who are just discovering these kinds of kitchen staples, I started there too, but I'm 10 years into cookbook reading and I just don't need a recipe for those things any more.
I would encourage you to check out Melissa Clark's cookbook [b:Dinner: Changing the Game|30688016|Dinner Changing the Game|Melissa Clark|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1488427017s/30688016.jpg|51233796] as a more useful alternative.