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Cover of The 4-Hour Chef by Tim Ferriss

The 4-Hour Chef

Tim Ferriss · 2012
Mentioned 51 times across 7 podcasts · 2018–2026
Mention timeline45 mentions
20182026
Where it's mentioned The Tim Ferriss Show · 45×
2026
#889: Q&A with Tim — How to Get Unstuck, Resilience in Hard Times, Tools for Brain Health, Finding Inner Peace, Optimism as a Learnable Skill, and More
The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2026
“the meta section of the four hour chef, which focuses on accelerated learning. is the most important section in that book”
#886: The Random Show — AI Super Assistants, Boner Pills, Dream Engineering, Wizards, Supplements, Books, and More
The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 2026
“My third book, Four Hour Chef, that's where it failed. It tried to do too much”
#882: Why Kids Can Learn 10x Faster Than We Think — Niels Hoven of Mentava (Tim Coaching Session)
The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2026
“Four hour chef. For our chef was launching in 212. I asked the same questions”
#877: Q&A with Tim — The Art of Male Friendship, Mini-Retirements, Higher-Resolution Living, Reinvention in The Age of AI, and More
The Tim Ferriss Show · Jul 2026
“the meta learning section of the Four Hour Chef. I think the Four Hour Chef is a book”
#860: Daredevil Michelle Khare — How to Become a YouTube Superstar, Open Impossible Doors (FBI, Secret Service, etc.), Craft Jedi-Level Cold Emails, and Use Fear-Setting to Change Your Life
The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2026
“The first was the four hour chef, which was basically a suicide mission of a deadline. Book that should have taken three years was done in A year”
2025
#826: Q&A with Tim — Supplements I’m Taking, Austin vs. SF, Training for Mental Performance, Current Go-To AI Tools, Recovering from Surgery, Intermittent Fasting, and More
The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2025
“That won't surprise anybody who's read The Four Hour Chef, which is confusingly a book about accelerated learning”
#821: My Two-Year Secret Project, COYOTE — The Strategies and Tactics for Building a Bestseller from Nothing with Elan Lee of Exploding Kittens
The Tim Ferriss Show · Aug 2025
“in the four hour chef a million years ago. Came out in twenty twelve, which was actually a book about accelerated learning”
#790: Chris Sacca — How to Succeed by Living on Your Own Terms and Getting Into Good Trouble
The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2025
“The four hour chef”
2024
#745: Rick Rubin and Mary Karr
The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2024
“And then in the process of working on the four hour chef and learning to forage”
#737: Naval Ravikant and Nick Kokonas
The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2024
“And You're also of great help with the four hour chef. So I wanted to right off the bat. Thank you for that”
#717: Noah Kagan — How to Launch a Million-Dollar Business This Weekend
The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2024
“four hour chef sold whatever hundred thousand plus copies in its first week was because I jumped on these new things called podcasts”
2023
#713: Matt Mullenweg — The Art of Crafting a Sabbatical, Tips for Defending Against Hackers, Leveraging Open Source, Thriving in an AI World, and Tips for Life’s Darkest Hours
The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2023
“That was in tandem with books. Took a break from the books after the four hour chef”
#683: In Case You Missed It: June 2023 Recap of "The Tim Ferriss Show"
The Tim Ferriss Show · Jul 2023
“which featured very heavily in the Four Hour Chef”
#670: The Random Show with Kevin Rose — The $1M Bitcoin Bet, Japanophilia, Rare IPAs, Preventing Hangovers, AI Companions, Fringe Discords, Affordable Luxuries, High-Fidelity Audio, and Much More
The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2023
“This is when I was actually, I guess, a little bit earlier. maybe eleven, twelve years when I was working on the four hour chef”
2022
#645: The Random Show, Mega-Holiday Edition — 2023 Resolutions and New Tools, Extensive Bullshitting, Booze and Ethanol Alternatives, The “Yearly Delete,” A Million Sidebars, Ayahuasca Revisited, Recapping the COCKPUNCH Saga, and Much More
The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2022
“I talk a lot about this in the four hour chef. So even if you buy it, you don't give a shit about cooking. And you just want to learn about metal learning and acquiring physical skills. There's a section called Meta Learning in the Four Hour Chef”
#638: Seth Godin on The Game of Life, The Value of Hacks, and Overcoming Anxiety (Repost)
The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2022
“the four hour chef was such a incredibly challenging and also confusing book”
#628: Q&A with Tim — Revisiting 15+ Years of PR and Marketing Lessons, Time Dilation for Deep Relaxation, The Art of Setting Ultra-High Prices, The Low-Information Diet, Studying Animal Communication, My 3-Day Fasting Protocol, Tools for Handling Adversity, Selling to the Affluent, My Current Coffee
The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 2022
“for The First book for our work week, that was Bloggers, for instance ... for the four hour chef. It was podcasts”
#614: Q&A with Tim on Wealth and Money, Book Recommendations, Advice on Taking Advice, C.S. Lewis, Relationships, Behavior Change and Self-Awareness, Why We Are All (Mostly) Making It Up as We Go, and Much More
The Tim Ferriss Show · Aug 2022
“And if you haven't read the four hour chef, there's an entire section on meta learning”
#594: Cal Newport and Tim Ferriss Revisit "The 4-Hour Workweek" (Plus: The Allure and The Void of Remote Work, Unsustainable Behaviors, Burning Out, The Cult of Productivity, and More)
The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2022
“because the four hour chef just about killed me”
2021
#557: Q&A with Tim — Tools for Better Sleep, Musings on Parenting, the Different Roles of Fear, the Delight of Deepening Friendships, the Purpose of College, How to Boost Your Mood, HRV Training, and More
The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2021
“more so the four hour body and the four hour chef were added into It's kind of a simultaneous update of all of those books”
#549: The Random Show — Biohacking, Tim’s COVID Experience, Holiday Gift Ideas, Favorite New Apps, Bad Science, Quarantine Delights, and a Small Dose of NFTs and DAOs
The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2021
“I remember from Four Hour Chef that good saffron, really good saffron, is very expensive”
#545: Marco Canora — The Art of Food, Eating, Nutrition, and Life
The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2021
“As documented in the four hour chef because we had a lot of adventures and misadventures related to all things in that book”
#527: The Random Show — Life-Extension Misadventures, Blockchain/Crypto Investing, NFT Experiments, Dogecoin, Zen Buddhism, and Weathering Sharp Elbows
The Tim Ferriss Show · Aug 2021
“related to disaster preparedness in the four hour chef”
#526: B. Jeffrey Madoff — Dealmaking, The Hidden Persuaders, Working with Ralph Lauren, and Finding the Secret to Life in the Mojave Desert
The Tim Ferriss Show · Aug 2021
“There was a very unusual promo that I did for the four hour chef”
#518: Q&A with Tim — Current Morning and Exercise Routines, Holotropic Breathwork, Ambition vs. Self-Compassion, Daily Practices for Joy, Ontological Shock, and More
The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2021
“Confusingly the four hour chef. This book that I wrote, which was the hardest book to put together, is in fact. A Book. about accelerated learning”
#498: Josh Waitzkin and Tim Ferriss on The Cave Process, Advice from Future Selves, and Training for an Uncertain Future
The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 2021
“aspects of meta learning that are explored in four hour chef, which confusingly is not just a cookbook. It is in fact a book about accelerated learning”
#493: The Random Show — Bitcoin Pros and Cons, 2021 Resolutions, Fave Books, Lucid Dreaming, Couples Therapy, and More
The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2021
“I was strongly, strongly militantly anti hunter. and hunting up until I worked on the four hour chef”
2020
#489: Guy Raz Interviews Tim Ferriss — How I Built This — Key Lessons, Critical Decisions, and Reinvention for Fun and Profit
The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2020
“I mean you did the the four hour chef and the four hour body”
#479: Mary Karr — The Master of Memoir on Creative Process and Finding Gifts in the Suffering
The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2020
“in the process of working on the four hour chef and learning to forage”
#476: Seth Godin on The Game of Life, The Value of Hacks, and Overcoming Anxiety
The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 2020
“part of the reason why as one instance the four hour chef was such a incredibly challenging and also confusing book”
#470: Steven Rinella on Hunting (And Why You Should Care), Reconnecting with Nature, Favorite Trips, and More
The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 2020
“we first met in the context of the four hour chef”
#439: Tools of Titans — Derek Sivers, BJ Miller, and Christopher Sommer
The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2020
“The four hour body and the four hour chef was to create a trilogy”
#429: Nick Kokonas on Resurrecting Restaurants, Skin in the Game, and Investing
The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2020
“Both you and Grant. appear quite heavily in the four hour chef for those people who might already have that”
#426: The Random Show: Boozy Quarantine Edition!
The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2020
“four hour chef had some I think there was a recipe within there with horse semen that You know, of all my books, I think the most appropriate right now for quarantine is the four hour chef”
#409: Brené Brown — Striving versus Self-Acceptance, Saving Marriages, and More
The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 2020
“book on entrepreneurship, book on physical performance, book on cognitive performance and learning and the four hour chef, et cetera, et cetera”
#408: The Random Show — New Year's Resolutions, 2010-2019 Lessons Learned, Finding Joy, Energy Management, and Much More
The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2020
“Then you have four hour chef, which was very much cognitively focused”
2019
#391: The Random Show — On Fasting, Forest Bathing, How to Say NO, Rebooting the Self, and Much More
The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 2019
“food marathon that I did for the four hour chef, which was twenty six point two dishes in twenty four hours”
#390: Q&A With Tim — On Happiness, Dating, Depressive Episodes, and Much More
The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 2019
“This is also advice, by the way, that I've had in the four hour chef”
#376: How Seth Godin Manages His Life — Rules, Principles, and Obsessions (Repost)
The Tim Ferriss Show · Jul 2019
“For just about anybody, the right answer is the four hour chef”
#363: Tea Time with Tim — How to Find Mentors, Decrease Anxiety Through Training, and Much More
The Tim Ferriss Show · Mar 2019
“After the four hour chef, which really completely burned me out”
2018
#352: Dr. Peter Attia vs. Tim Ferriss
The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2018
“The Four Hour Work Week, The Four Hour Body, The Four Hour Chef”
#341: Nick Kokonas — How to Apply World-Class Creativity to Business, Art, and Life
The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 2018
“an entire section of the Four Hour Chef on, which was one of my books, because I was so impressed”
#312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur
The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2018
“after completing this book called The Four Hour Chef, which was an intense, intense project”
#306: Discipline, Sex, Psychedelics, and More — The Return of Drunk Dialing
The Tim Ferriss Show · Mar 2018
“and you know, going through with the four hour chef”
#305: Daniel Pink — How to Make Better Decisions and Be More Creative
The Tim Ferriss Show · Mar 2018
“The Four Hour Chef for Me was also by far the most difficult book”