Author Spotlight: Peak Nutrition - Smart Fuel for Outdoor Adventure with Maria Hines
Meet the author! A delicious yet comprehensive nutritional cookbook for the mountain athlete.
Meet the Author
with Maria Hines
Order your copy of Peak Nutrition: Smart Fuel for Outdoor Adventure
18 May
Wednesday at 7:00pm CT (60 minutes)
A delicious yet comprehensive nutritional cookbook for the mountain athlete, written by an award‐winning chef and professional coach
What happens when you combine the minds and talents of climbing partners Maria Hines, a James Beard-award-winning chef, and Mercedes Pollmeier, a NSCA-certified strength and conditioning specialist? A book filled with 100 simple yet tasty recipes designed within the context of outdoor goals and body science. The authors found their performance suffering after regularly consuming the standard fare of packaged bars and gels, and decided it was time to educate people on how to get the most from their food.
Peak Nutrition: Smart Fuel for Outdoor Adventure is more than just a delicious cookbook. Hines and Pollmeier realized for people to be motivated to better fuel their bodies, they needed to better understand how they worked in relation to food. They dive deep into body and digestive system science; outdoor sport motivation, recovery, and hydration; developing healthier eating habits; how to better fuel aging bodies; and much more. "Peak Profiles" offer food tips from elite athletes such as backcountry boarder Jeremy Jones and climber Sasha Diguilian and sample menus help readers plan what to prep and pack.
Whether you are an outdoor athlete looking to improve your performance or simply a home-chef seeking to better your understanding of nutrition, this comprehensive cookbook will appeal to and inspire the millions of Americans interested in cultivating a healthy lifestyle in the kitchen and beyond.
About Maria
Winner of the 2009 James Beard Award for Best Chef Northwest, Maria Hines was also named one of Food & Wine magazine’s 10 Best New Chefs and won Food Network’s “Iron Chef America: Battle of Pacific Cod.” Her organic Seattle restaurant, Tilth, was one of the nation’s top culinary destinations. An avid big wall climber, she holds a Level 1 nutrition certification and runs an online nutrition coaching business, Mazama Nutrition.
Maria is deeply committed to organic, regenerative, and nutritious food systems, a lover of rock climbing and other mountain sports that keep her connected to the natural world, and a steward of this beautiful planet. She uses her entrepreneurial experience to consult for a variety of food and beverage operations, developing retail products, and building restaurants. Developing storytelling content for companies aligned with these values, through brand partnerships, consulting, and product development is her greatest pleasure, working together to inspire people to live actively, happily, nutritiously, cook, eat, and be well.
One of Maria’s all-time passions is rock climbing, along with a handful of other outdoor activities (trail running, mountain biking, paddle boarding, skiing, etc.) She realized when pushing physical limits that her body was working too hard to keep up and hunted for a sport’s nutrition cookbook for mountain athletes to help take her body to the next level, and the book just didn’t exist. So she became a certified nutrition coach through Precision Nutrition and wrote Peak Nutrition with Mercedes Pollmeier. This comprehensive sports nutrition cookbook for the mountain athlete is a Mountaineer’s Publishing bestseller and won the NOBA (National Outdoor Book Award) for the best instructional book.
Check out and subscribe to Maria’s YouTube channel to gain inspiration for cooking in the outdoors, learn about nutrition, and food advocacy here: chefmariahines.com/screen. Join her on an Outdoor Cookout adventure by following her on Instagram at chefmariahines.
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