Peanut Butter to Parmesan Fuels Players During World Cup

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You are what you eat when it comes to your feet.

Teams at the World Cup this year are depending on an increasingly professional squad of chefs and nutritionists who treat food as fuel, both for the body and, in the form of dishes from home, for the mind. The Italians brought pasta, parmesan and wine, the Swiss muesli and chocolate, and the Americans bins of peanut butter and jelly.