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

by Ferriss, Timothy
ISBN: 9781328519160
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WHAT IF YOU COULD BECOME WORLD-CLASS IN ANYTHING IN 6 MONTHS OR LESS?

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 bestselling 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, super models, 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 is a five-stop journey through the art and science of learning:

1. META-LEARNING. Before you learn to cook, you must learn to learn. META charts the path to doubling your learning potential.

2. THE DOMESTIC. DOM is where you learn the building blocks of cooking. These are the ABCs (techniques) that can take you from Dr, Seuss to Shakespeare.

3. THE WILD. Becoming a master student requires self-sufficiency in all things. WILD teaches you to hunt, forage, and survive.

4. THE SCIENTIST. SCI is the mad scientist and modernist painter wrapped into one. This is where you rediscover whimsy and wonder.

5. THE PROFESSIONAL. Swaraj, a term usually associated with Mahatma Gandhi, can be translated as "self-rule." In PRO, we'll look at how the best in the world become the best in the world, and how you can chart your own path far beyond this book.

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Author: Ferriss, Timothy
  • ISBN: 9781328519160
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 9.20 x 2.00
  • Number Of Pages: 672
  • Publication Year: 2012

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  • Bizarre ingredients

    Megan C. - 5 years 1 month ago

    Really great idea, but the recipes called for ingredients I just really don't use (don't want to use) and don't have access to. (Where does a person buy EEL??? I have no idea.). It took longer to source the ingredients the lessons/recipes call for than to go through the lessons themselves

  • More than just learning how to cook!

    Jeff M. - 5 years 1 month ago

    Timothy Ferriss is many things but before he began work on this epic book he was like many of us - a non-cook. He may have managed to cobble together a sandwich for lunch or heat up a bowl of soup or slap a steak on the grill but ask him to follow a recipe and make something from scratch it would probably end up a mangled version than what the recipe advertised. But Mr. Ferriss is also an adventurous sort and what one would call a life-long learner. By studying under various experts across many fields and drawing on his own unique skills to teach and learn languages, Ferriss deconstructs the process of learning itself and teaches the reader how to effectively learn any skill they could ever want to learn. Will the "The 4-Hour Chef" teach you how to cook a perfect meal for your next dinner party? Certainly! But you will also walk away with the skill set to master anything!

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