I heard this on the radio today, and I thought it was an amazing story.

We have a popular TV cook, Alfons Schubeck, in Muenich. He owns several top restaurants in a great location near the Hofbrauhaus.

Anyhow, a while back, he had a group of unusual guests that literally stumbled dirty and sweaty into his fancy dining room every evening, for a week. It was a group of American cyclists, who after cycling around 120 miles, concluded their day in his restaurant to spoil themselves with his mouth watering meals. They were so impressed, that they jokingly invited him to fly over to the States and cook for them.

Half a year went by, and Schubeck got a call and invitation to cook for a week for their yearly bike excursion. They flew him to Aspen Colorado. There he was picked up by helicopter to one of their mountain peaks. He ‘camped’ out alone in a rustic log cabin, with a fireplace big enough to burn an entire tree trunk. Food for his 25 guests was brought in by helicopter including 3 pretty ladies to help him cook. Every evening 25 cyclists pumped their way up the mountain, dined on a 5 course gourmet dinner, and then sped down the mountain pass, in the gleam of their bike lights.

I dined at his restaurant with my friend Karin, when she visited me a couple of months ago. It was good, but not THAAAT good. Chatty, you should probably cook for these guys. And Orchid and Madelane, if this is the life of a cyclist; well then I’m game.

Here’s a link to Schubeck’s website; http://www.schuhbeck.de/