One of 3 books needed to go from amateur hour to pro chef. The content is awesome too, it's not a cookbook, even though there are some recipes in it. He gives you a primer on how to be accepted and well treated in restaurants and the specialized lingo...  Read More

Tim ferriss seems to be the type of compulsive obsessive person that has real trouble creating an maintaining real human relationships. The manic nature of this book makes you forget any good lessons he might have to teach under a rubble of sheer, mou...  Read More

Some of the brags make literally no sense. He insists that a few good, simply tools will get the job done. Except that it is not. Then it was codged together by an offshore team.

The book sort of devolves down into a choppy, adhd-addled splattering of stories, thoughts, and lists that basically come across less like an organized book and more like someone just dowloaded a blog.

There were no complex flavours in this dish -- just a very gamey tasting lamb. Sometimes it's just the assumption that everyone has a butcher who can cut them a few lamb shanks.