Michael Roux Jr The Marathon Chef: Food for Getting Fit

Michael Roux Jr The Marathon Chef offers you recipes that are designed for well-being and fitness. Roux is a celebrated London chef and runs the Michelin star restaurant Le Gavroche. Recipes use metric measurements.  ----  Format: Hardcover with dust jacket, 192 pages.  Copyright: 2003  Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson  Author: Michel Roux Jr  Description: This cookbook is for anyone interested in eating well and getting lit whether by intermittently working out at the gym, running for fun or training for sporting fixtures or a marathon.  The recipes were developed by Michel Roux Jr as he started running, initially as a casual jogger ten years ago and now as a veteran of eight marathons.  Michel developed the programme by trial and error, based on how his body felt and reacted to what he ate. Certain foods made him feel good and made less effort of all the training involved in preparing for a marathon. While training, he largely avoids red meat and animal fats, eats lots of fruit