About

Fast Foodie

Fast Foodie, the Name Defined:

This fast foodie has nothing to do with fast food. In fact, this fast foodie wouldn’t touch fast foodie. The name is based on the following definitions.

Fast: characterized by quick motion, operation, or effect: (1): moving or able to move rapidly : swift (2): taking a comparatively short time (3): imparting quickness of motion <a fast bowler> (4): accomplished quickly. (In this case, this is a reference to the speed at which I run) (Source: Merriam Webster)

Foodie: Although the two terms are sometimes used interchangeably, foodies differ from gourmets in that gourmets are epicures of refined taste who may or may not be professionals in the food industry, whereas foodies are amateurs who simply love food for consumption, study, preparation, and news.^[1] Gourmets simply want to eat the best food, whereas foodies want to learn everything about food, both the best and the ordinary, and about the science, industry, and personalities surrounding food.^[2] For this reason, foodies are sometimes viewed as obsessively interested in all things culinary. There is also a general feeling in the culinary industry that the term gourmet is outdated. (Source: Wikipedia)

About the Fast Foodie Blog:

What began as a the occasional food post on a running blog, Fast Foodie Blog quickly developed into a site unto itself. The food side of the blog had taken on a life of its own, as the passionate chef behind it built momentum in her own food career. The recipes on this site are the product of a elite endurance runner looking to balance taste and function, health and enjoyment and failing to find any source but her own imagination that fit that bill. Nutrition and good food often sit on opposite ends of the culinary spectrum, there is a chasm for most people in trying to marry the top. This blog is a born out of the chef’s own journey into that space between and her efforts to unite those forces (health and taste) and the inspired recipes that came out of that experimentation. This blog is for anyone, elite athletes, weekend warriors, the health conscious and even just the discerning eater who wants to experience food that nourishes tastebuds, body, soul and spirit.

About Fast Foodie aka Devon Crosby-Helms:

Like her blog, her love of food developed alongside her running. Always a food lover and a nutritionally conscious person, when Devon became a competitive runner she took her eating as seriously as she took her running. She made it her mission to learn as much about nutrition while at the same time experimenting in the kitchen to make sure her tastebuds were as taken care of as her health. To support that mission in 2007, Devon attended Bauman College’s Natural Chef Program and earned her holistic natural chef/personal chef certificate. What started as a training function and a fun hobby had grown into a passion and that passion ignited a new career path for the one-time Children’s and Young Adult Librarian. Now Devon works as a personal chef & caterer to both competitive athletes and health conscious nonathletes alike, as well as cultivating a career as a food writer and critic, hosting culinary classes and parties and is currently working on both her debut young adult novel (about food, of course) and her first cookbook. She is a competitive marathoner and ultrarunner, who also keeps a blog of her running adventures (check it out here!) Devon remains committed to bringing her readership healthy, delicious, creative, new recipes that will inspire and empower you body, mind and spirit.

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