They're athletes. They're treated like marathon runners or Lance Armstrong. I spend more time cooking for them than myself.

In light of my upcoming marathon I feel I need more time to recover and prepare without further interruption for my primary event.

This one is a marathon. It's going to go for a long time,

It just happens that this national event is happening at the same time as the marathon. Its really exciting the way God has his hand in this.

The tradition of Italian cooking is that of the matriarch. This is the cooking of grandma. She didn't waste time thinking too much about the celery. She got the best celery she could and then she dealt with it.

Two hundred years ago cooking was very time consuming. Actually, for most families until after the 1850s, foods were very limited in their variety. The average winter diet of a southern American was fat back and corn-mill, along with some wheat products that you could store through winter.