Chef Biju Thomas on cycling, food, and emigrating to the U.S.

The Adventure Stache

Payson McElveen

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🗓️ 1 July 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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As co-founder of SkratchLabs and co-author of the FeedZone cookbooks, Chef Biju Thomas has played a major role in how cyclists fuel themselves. He and his family emigrated from a rural part of Southern India to Colorado when he was 10. As a teenager, he fell in love with cycling right around the time he started working in restaurants, and dreamed of combining his two passions. Decades later, he’s done just that, cooking for top cyclists, authoring cookbooks that have changed the way the cycli...

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0:00.0	I always felt that there was an opportunity to be a chef in the sport world, in the world of sports.
0:06.2	And coming into the early 2000s, I really felt there was an opportunity there and nobody was doing it.
0:13.0	That for me started with seeing some footage.
0:15.7	I want to say it was of Greg Lamont and one of his races where, just like for a split second, one of his chefs came
0:23.8	off the team bus, and he was in like shorts, and he had an apron.
0:27.5	He was like this big, burly Dutch or flamish guy.
0:30.2	And I'm like, oh, that's the job.
0:32.2	But that job didn't exist.
0:33.9	I was like, I cook.
0:34.6	I like ride bikes.
0:35.3	I need to be that guy.
0:36.5	It's showtime, everybody.
0:38.6	Showtime!
0:41.3	You've been living in a dream world, Neil.
0:45.0	This is the world as it exists today.
0:49.9	Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while.
0:55.5	You could miss it.
0:59.9	Listen, we talk about practice.
1:02.2	Repeat on the dude's room.
1:04.0	Donnie, you're out of your element.
1:07.4	I see, you think this has nothing to do with you.
1:11.4	Don't ever trash talk black Jesus.
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