The 4-Hour Chef
by Timothy Ferriss · first published 2012
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Building upon Timothy Ferriss's internationally successful "4-hour" franchise, "The 4-Hour Chef" transforms the way we cook, eat, and learn. You'll train inside the kitchen for everything outside the kitchen. 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. This "cookbook for people who don't buy cookbooks" is a guide to mastering cooking and life.
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http://www.amazon.com/The-4-Hour-Chef-Learning-Anything/dp/0... is quite fun and as much a book about learning to learn as about cooking. It's sort of a hackers guide to cooking. Or agreed...Jamie is a good start too. One of the original…
on “I Almost Let My Failed Startup Destroy Me” ↗Tim Ferriss wrote a book on how to learn things fast. It's called 4 Hour Chef: https://www.amazon.com/4-Hour-Chef-Cooking-Learning-Anything... He gives a lot of tips but it's up to you to test them out and see what works for you.
on “Ask HN: How to learn new things better?” ↗This reminds me of another book, "The 4 Hour Chef" by Tim Ferriss. Is it the opposite of Modernist Cuisine? I thought of it as practical, not theoretical. Like: learn to chop vegetables. and don't bother measuring stuff, learn how to grab a pinch…
on “Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking” ↗This reminds me of a quip in a New York Times article about Amazon's exclusive book, Timothy Ferriss’s “The 4-Hour Chef:" Those books about finding success without trying too hard were a particular hit with young men, who identified with their quasi-scientific entrepreneurial spirit. The schedule reads like a table of…
on “Rationality for Entrepreneurs: Awesome workshop in the Bay Area” ↗