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Caveat that I'm reviewing the first episode and will update this if later ones are better. The idea seems intriguing -- cooking for an elite sport team. But for me it didn't quite work, mainly because of the constant switching back and forth between commentary on the food and commentary on the cyclists (and the race).

There was never anything that really brought the two together. The chef repeatedly talks about the importance of nutritious food which is interesting, but the cyclists are simply shown eating it. None of them ever 'wow, this food is great!' or gives any indication that the food matters even though that is the premise of the show. I'll watch more; hoping future episodes are more interesting.

Hannah Grant appears to have little understanding of food safety. I watched her eat tuna raw which had been filleted on a boat deck. You can't just catch fish from the ocean, use a dirty knife on your boat with no cutting board to chop it up, and then eat it raw. That can kill you.

Earlier, she boasts about her cooking while skewering steaks on laurel wood sticks she gathered. Laurel wood can't be used for food, it's toxic. Laurel leaves (Bay leaf) are safe in food when not burned. Laurel wood however is never safe to cook with. Information about these things takes one minute to search for on the Internet. There's no excusing ignorance of this kind anymore since we all have unlimited information literally in our hands all day.

Wood used for smoking and cooking that is safe to use comes from a very short list. Generally, that's nut bearing trees, maple, hickory, or orchard trees like apple. Yes, you can use any wood to make a campfire, but if you want to cook food on it that isn't in a cast iron pot, the wood needs to be safe. For example, cooking hotdogs and marshmallows over pine is toxic. Please don't poison your kids when you go camping parents. Look this information up first.

I attempted to reach out to Hannah Grant via her website. Weeks later, I have not received a response. This indicates to me that she's aware of her mistakes and refuses to acknowledge them publicly.

If you are a pro athlete, a cyclist, or just someone at home who likes to cook, watch out for yourself. I wouldn't eat any food prepared by Hannah Grant or her staff. How can she have worked for NOMA and not know these things? I was expecting amazing cooking paired with an inside look at pro cycling. What I saw was unprofessional and horrified me.

This is literally the worst food safety for pro athletes I've seen since I caught the pro football teams in New Orleans filling their team Gatorade coolers from a garden hose. Don't do that either. Drinking from garden hoses is very bad for you.