Biju Thomas on fueling the US Olympic team in Paris and cooking 900 pounds of chicken at Sea Otter

The Adventure Stache

Payson McElveen

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4.9 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Chef Biju Thomas made a major impact on cycling when he co-founded Skratch Labs with his friend Allen Lim, but these days, you're most likely to find him cooking for cyclists at large events. For example, he was part of the squad that fueled the US cycling team at the Paris Olympics last summer. More recently, he was busy making several thousand meals at Sea Otter. Biju sat down with Payson in Bentonville to chat about the logistics of cooking for Olympic athletes from such different d...

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0:00.0	I'm Pace McElvin, and this is the With Pace podcast.
0:11.7	A lot of these riders probably haven't spent much time together until they show up to the Olympics.
0:17.1	When you get so many top performers together and they're together for the first time ever,
0:23.6	and they're in the same room together, and most of them really don't know each other's names yet,
0:27.6	but now they're all wearing the same starch and stripes, outfits, they're representing the same country.
0:33.6	One of the best things that could possibly happen is for them to have meals together.
0:42.0	Hey everyone and welcome back to the show.
0:44.6	Chef Bijou Thomas returns today to talk all kinds of stuff,
0:48.4	including fueling the U.S. Olympic cycling team in Paris.
0:52.8	A very funny story about cooking 900 pounds of chicken at sea otter last month.
0:58.5	We even take some listener questions.
1:01.6	There's some of everything in here, really.
1:04.2	As always, it's just a very, very fun interview.
1:07.4	Recorded this one in the podcast studio in Ledger Bentonville. Before diving in, though,
1:14.2	got a handful of quick announcements because we have lots going on, including some in-person
1:20.2	event opportunities that I wanted to bring your attention to. First things first, though,
1:26.3	we have our winner for the WithP t-shirt, mountain bike fender,
1:30.5	and stickers.
1:32.0	Thanks everyone that sent in guesses for that old Adventure Stash intro, but we had to pick one,
1:38.1	and Amanda from Massachusetts is our lucky winner.
1:41.7	She'll be getting one of each in the mail. We'll be getting in touch to
1:46.1	get your t-shirt size and shipping a dress. Congratulations, Amanda. And here were her correct
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