The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life
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The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life
Furthermore, as author P. J. O’Rourke puts it: “Veal is a very young beef and, like a very young girlfriend, it’s cute but boring and expensive.
LEMONS If something is missing, if the flavors don’t quite pop, the easiest way to fix it is with a little acid.
The Silver Spoon, the best-selling Italian cookbook of the last 50 years. To me, it was like holding the Necronomicon.
of The Art of Simple Food by Chez Panisse founder Alice Waters lined the wall behind the bar.
Here are the 12 sentences, the “Deconstruction Dozen”: The apple is red. It is John’s apple. I give John the apple. We give him the apple. He gives it to John. She gives it to him. Is the apple red? The apples are red. I must give it to him. I want to give it to her. I’m going to know tomorrow. (I have eaten the apple.)16 I can’t eat the apple.
• Fat loss MED = consume 30 g of protein within 30 minutes of waking up. Dozens of readers have lost 100+ lbs each; thousands more have lost 10–100 lbs. • To overcome female weight-loss plateaus, MED = five minutes of kettlebell swings, three times per week. Tracy Reifkind, for example, lost 120+ lbs as a 40-something mother of two. • To gain 10–30
... See moreHow you do anything is how you will do everything. John Wooden, legendary UCLA basketball coach, had his players learn how to put their socks on—step-by-step—during their first all-team meeting of the season. As surgeon Atul Gawande explained in The New Yorker: “He had two purposes in doing this. First, wrinkles cause blisters. Blisters cost games.
... See morewas “Jai Mahakali, Ayo Gorkhali!” (“Glory be to the Goddess Kali [the Hindu goddess of power], here come the Gurkhas!”) The blade is in my home to remind me of the importance
SHORT TV I use Roku and Amazon Prime to stream when I can: • Escape to River Cottage and Return to River Cottage—This is by far my favorite food series, and Escape to River Cottage is the strongest. Absolutely wonderful. • Heston Blumenthal’s “In Search of Perfection” on YouTube. • Top Chef season 6, episode 13: “Goodbye to Vegas”—Features Thomas
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