The Best Things Lisa Curry Ate at the Olympics

The Cook Up with Adam Liaw

Decades later, three-time Olympian Lisa Curry still has fond memories of the

“The village has just about every food imaginable from around the world, because it has to cater to the needs of the Bulgarian weightlifter and the little Australian gymnast, and everyone in between,” Curry says. “The best part of the Olympics is in the food court in the village.”

The former competitive swimmer competed at the 1980 Games in Moscow, the 1984 Games in Los Angeles and the 1992 Games in Barcelona.

“Considering my age and how long ago my career was, there wasn’t a lot of information about nutrition back then and I’m surprised I swam so well considering what I was eating back then,” she says, adding that her knowledge of sports nutrition has improved over the course of her career.

Before a race, she would usually eat scrambled eggs on toast with Vegemite. “I would take my own Vegemite, because that’s what I grew up with, that’s what I trained with, and that’s what works well in my gut,” she says.

Athletes follow a strict diet before the competition, but she says after the race they take full advantage of the dining hall and everything the host city has to offer.

“In Moscow they had the most amazing ice cream, and I can still remember it, I can still remember it. It was rolls of vanilla ice cream rolled into this pastry. I probably had way too much of it, but that was our treat, and we enjoyed it,” she says.

She remembers going into town after a match in Barcelona and seeing large pans of paella being prepared in the streets and wine flowing freely.

After the Olympic Games in Moscow, she went backpacking through Europe with friends at the age of 18.

I can still see it.

“Because we didn’t have any money, we bought a baguette, went to the supermarket and bought some ham and cheese. We had a picnic under the Eiffel Tower with our baguette ham, cheese and Vegemite, and that was my favorite meal. It’s a beautiful memory for us that we were able to have that picnic under the Eiffel Tower with something so simple.”

Traveling and eating out can be expensive, but she found that you can buy delicious ingredients like cheese, crackers, dips, bread, ham and tomatoes at your local supermarket and have a picnic.

What Lisa Curry is eating today

These days, Curry is a fan of Mexican and Japanese cuisine. She enjoys healthy eating without it becoming an obsession. She follows an 80/20 approach to eating; 80 percent of the time she eats nutritious food and has more freedom than the other 20 percent.

She leaves most of the cooking to her husband. “I’m not a great cook, I don’t really enjoy it, so any meal someone else cooks for me is a good meal,” she says, adding that she enjoyed learning how to cook new dishes as a guest of Adam Liaw on .

“I think cooking can be simple if you know how to do it. Butterfly is simple for me because I know how to do it, but for someone else it’s very complicated. So if someone teaches you the basics of cooking, it actually becomes more fun.”

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The Best Things Lisa Curry Ate at the Olympics

What Lisa Curry is eating today

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