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Welcome to Olympian Kitchen
Maybe you just stumbled upon this page, and would like to know more. Let me explain who I am, and what you will find here.
Olympian Kitchen is a newsletter run by me, Nicola Fairbrother. I’m an Olympian (in 1992 I won the silver medal in the lightweight women’s judo event), a chef and I’m fascinated about how what we eat can make us fitter and healthier.
My mission is to help you take care of your body and eat nutritious, delicious food. By improving what we put in, we improve what we get out.
Look forward to recipes with a Mediterranean, Spanish touch. Recipes that you can read quickly, and don’t take too much time to make.
Each edition, I’ll also walk through a simple culinary skill. By understanding the whys and how’s you gain confidence cooking. The secret to becoming a good cook is to enjoy the process of cooking as much as the meal.
So, would you like to eat healthier?
Healthy eating is a choice that we all make or don’t make at some point during our life.
And then when you’ve made that decision, the rest follows, pulled into place by that initial decision. You discover healthy food. You find out new ways of cooking it. You gather recipes. You remove the obstacles. You start becoming someone who eats healthy.
This is what I want Olympian Kitchen to be - a place to get healthier bite by bite.
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If you want to begin reading something interesting, you can start here:
Immune Boosting Pomegranate juice - how to open a pomegranate, juice it, and reduce that juice to make delicious, sticky molasses.
Traditional Spanish Tortilla de Patata - how to make a spanish omelette and cook the eggs at the right temperature.
Slow Down - a story from the chef stage, about the pressure, as I almost disappear over the edge.
A healthy, easy way to cook fish - how to use the cooking method en papillote and build your own recipes.
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More about my work and me. I’m Nicola Fairbrother. I’m a double Olympian (Barcelona 1992 Silver and Atlanta 1996 5th), light-weight World Champion (1993), awarded a MBE by HM The Queen. I publish a range of children’s judo books (Koka Kids) and run another substack delivering judo coaching resources. I’m a trained chef (Leiths Professional Diploma) and have completed a 100 day chef-stage in Spanish Michelin kitchens.