Episode · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2021-11-10
Books mentioned on #545: Marco Canora — The Art of Food, Eating, Nutrition, and Life
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Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Last of the Mohicans
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper is a classic historical novel set against the backdrop of the French and Indian War, detailing frontier survival, loyalty, and cultural conflict.
Discussed“great book by the way I've recently read very dated for those people who are sensitive to such things but beautifully written”
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Metabolical
Metabolical by Robert H.
Recommended“this book metabolical and a quote which it's not what's in the food it's what's been done into the food”
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This Is Water
This Is Water by David Foster Wallace is a famous commencement speech delivered at Kenyon College in 2005 that was later published as a short book, offering philosophical reflections on awareness, empathy, and the meaning of daily life.
Recommended“this is Water by David Foster Wallace is one I commonly give because it's just it's so short and and the message is so perfect in my opinion”
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Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“I had an opportunity to go and look back at some of our early interactions as documented in the 4our chef because we had a lot of Adventures and Misadventures related to all things in that book”
“and so the the the this the the sentence that I put in the book was this excited me for three reasons”
“that was the 4our chef”
“so in the in the 4H Hour Chef you know wrote All About My First real inebriated 5 and a half hour orgy of gastronomic delights and the end of that section I said by the end of the evening I concluded what many others had Hearth is the most underrated restaurant in all of New York City”
“I think in part how Jeffrey initially connected us is because of kind of 4our body slow carb diet and so on”
“I'm going to do another CGM experiment soon because the last time I did a continuous glucose monitor experiment was in 2008 or n for the 4-Hour Body with the version one Dexcom which you had to implant in your abdomen”