Name: The 4-hour Chef
Rating: 3.864864864864865 (37 reviews)
ISBN: 9780547884592

Timothy Ferriss

Presents a practical but unusual guide to mastering food and cooking featuring recipes and cooking tricks from world-renowned chefs.

The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life

The 4-hour Chef

Enrique Iturriaga

Shawn Camp

Beginner, intermediate,or expert you have to appreciate the depth of this book. For one its gorgeous, put together in such a way that anyone could follow. And differing from your traditional cookbook, Tim proclaims this is a book about learning, and he's got that right and then some. <br /><br />He starts with an instruction into learning techniques to master any new skill, language, or career. Then he dissects going to culinary school into sections that make sense and work. From the domestic to the professional you leave the classroom seeing everyone unfolded before you to go back and master what you want, it's Alton you now.<br /><br />This is the very first cookbook that I've actually read from the first page all the way through to the end including the appendix. I read every recipe including the shorthand and steps to completely grasp the information being offered here. After devouring everything that was provided here, now ill step into each section and start learning these methods knowing by the end I won't be a culinary genius, or even a decent cook, but I can damn well impress my family and friends that I can survive in my own kitchen.

Pranav Mutatkar

TLDR: I've only perused the cooking parts and read the meta-learning section. Don't buy a cookbook, buy a manual on how to learn.

To be fair, I haven't "finished" this book. I don't know if I ever will. Because I didn't buy into the idea of a cookbook, I bought into the idea of a cookbook as an idea for learning how to learn. 

IMHO, the section on meta-learning alone is worth getting the book. I don't always agree with what Tim says or how he approaches problems (for example I think he has more willpower than most which renders his definition of lazy as different than mine, etc.). 

However, there is no doubt that he has a great, different, counterintuitive way of looking at learning which I appreciate. If his ideas on learning are mashed together with other experts on the subject and tweaked especially through the lens of habit formation... you can create an invaluable framework for being good enough at almost anything.

Tejas Bhatt

Tim Ferriss writes like one of those friends who is just too cool for you and whose Instagram feed makes you want to dig your head into the sand and never take it out.

Wojciech Waśniewski

Taylor Murphy

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Jayme Cochrane

Heiki Riesenkampf

Suat ATAN

Building on Timothy Ferriss's internationally successful "4-hour" franchise, The 4-Hour Chef transforms the way we cook, eat, and learn. Featuring recipes and cooking tricks from world-renowned chefs, and interspersed with the radically counterintuitive advice Ferriss's fans have come to expect, The 4-Hour Chef is a practical but unusual guide to mastering food and cooking, whether you are a seasoned pro or a blank-slate novice.

The 4-Hour Chef

Jeffrey Mack

ian alas

Matt Woods

Keven Wang

A STANDARD PRINT TITLE (NOT LARGE PRINT) The 4-Hour Chef isn't just a cookbook. It's a choose-your-own-adventure guide to the world of rapid learning. #1 New York Times best-selling author (and lifelong non-cook) Tim Ferriss takes you from Manhattan to Okinawa, and from Silicon Valley to Calcutta, unearthing the secrets of the world's fastest learners and greatest chefs. Ferriss uses cooking to explain "meta-learning," a step-by-step process that can be used to master anything, whether searing steak or shooting 3-pointers in basketball. That is the real "recipe" of The 4-Hour Chef. You'll train inside the kitchen for everything outside the kitchen. Featuring tips and tricks from chess prodigies, world-renowned chefs, pro athletes, master sommeliers, supermodels, and everyone in between, this "cookbook for people who don't buy cookbooks" is a guide to mastering cooking and life.

The 4-hour Chef The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life

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