How to Be Tim Ferriss – Featuring Freakonomics (#162)

How to Be Tim Ferriss – Featuring Freakonomics (#162)

This episode is a role-reversal. I flew to New York City and sat down with Stephen J. Dubner (@freakonomics) of Freakonomics fame. He proceeded to ask me all sorts of questions that I’d never heard before, and we recorded the entire thing.  It was a blast. His team did an incredible job with post-production, and I wanted to share …

The BitTorrent Strikes Back: The 4-Hour Chef Audiobook Goes Loose

The BitTorrent Strikes Back: The 4-Hour Chef Audiobook Goes Loose

As a thank-you to all of you today, I am today releasing the audiobook of The 4-Hour Chef…for free. This includes almost 10 hours of recording: all of the chapters on accelerated learning, all of the ridiculous experiments and related stories, and much more. I’m partnering with BitTorrent again to bring you a bundle of …

Food Photography Made Easy — Simple Tricks and Pro Tips from The 4-Hour Chef

Food Photography Made Easy — Simple Tricks and Pro Tips from The 4-Hour Chef

A great pic from Christopher Michel of Central Kitchen in San Francisco. The red box indicates how we cropped for pg. 15 of The 4-Hour Chef. Christopher Michel has taken pictures from outer space.  OK, technically, it was aboard a U-2 “Dragon Lady” spy plane at the edge of space.  But still. Best known as …

What to Do If Boycotted by 1,000+ Bookstores? Open Your Own Bookstores, Of Course.

So far, The 4-Hour Chef has had some great allies, including Panera (complete with new hidden Slow-Carb Diet menu), BitTorrent (bundle here), and Hastings. In San Francisco, Samovar Tea Lounges in now selling signed copies in all locations! But I’m most excited about my next partner: you. What to do if 1,000+ books stores are …

Meet The New York City Food Marathon: 26.2 Dishes in 26 Locations in 24 Hours

Excess can sometimes be delicious. Thanksgiving is a great example. The NYC Food Marathon, however, takes things to an entirely new level. Think of it as a 24-hour Thanksgiving on steroids: 26.2 iconic dishes in 26 locations, all hit by foot in 24 hours. It’s one of the most insanely fun ways to spend a …

The 4-Hour Chef is LIVE — Dr. Oz, NYC Cabs, TaskRabbit, London, and More

The 4-Hour Chef is LIVE — Dr. Oz, NYC Cabs, TaskRabbit, London, and More

The 4-Hour Chef has arrived and is available today. It’s 672 pages of full-color goodness that required blood, sweat, and tears (literally) for nearly two years.  Putting it together was brutal.  In the end, I think it’s the best book I’ve written, a very unusual choose-your-own-adventure guide to learning and life.  I really hope you like …

The 4-Hour Chef Cinematic Trailer – Plus $2,500 Video Competition

For The 4-Hour Chef, I want to do things differently. The above cinematic trailer is more playful than the intense 4-Hour Body trailer, and the storytelling takes a completely different approach. Today also marks the launch of the official 4-Hour Chef site, which has photos, book outlines, and more. In total, we now have four …

How to Shuck an Oyster – The Nation's #1 Shucker Shares His Technique

This is a tiny snack of a post. Consider it a 4-Hour Chef amuse-bouche. Amuse-bouche literally means “mouth amuser” in French, and it’s a single-bite hors d’œuvre served at the beginning of a meal. While in Seattle for mischief with the Delve Kitchen boys, I ended up at Taylor Shellfish Farms. There, I had the …