By now a lot of you have gotten the message that The Fat Loss Troubleshoot is about teaching you how to “fish” for fat loss. In general, I feel that way about everything. Whatever I can learn to do myself, I try to do. I like collecting skills; it’s fun.

One skill that I was lucky enough to have come across naturally was cooking. However, for some, the act of cooking successfully is a great challenge. Since I believe that good food goes a long way with surviving fat loss, here’s a lesson for the day.

Since I confessed to a Peanut Butter addiction yesterday, I thought that today I would confess to another dark secret.

I have a massive crush on Alton Brown.

He’s just my kind of guy, what can I say. He appeals to the humor and scientific side of me equally, a very rare quality.

Alton feels about cooking the way I feel about fat loss. If you don’t have it naturally, if you aren’t “gifted” in it, then you have to learn it from a no-nonsense point of view.

So it’s funny that I got this email today because I was just thinking about making a Alton post.

Question: Leigh,

What is a good “teach a man to fish” cookbook that you recommend?

Thanks for your awesome products,

Neal

Well Neal first off, what an awesome, freaking question! You know why? It says you want to learn something, you don’t just want to be blindly lead through life. That’s part of what makes people great at what they do, not just lucky.

To answer your question I highly recommend picking up Alton Brown’s I’m Just Here for the Food (I believe Version 2.0).

The book is just awesome. It goes through the basics of everything, gives great graphs, some cartoons, humor and more. You learn about spices, different cooking methods, rubs, pots to use, knives, you name it. Basically, if you are a cooking moron, by the end of this book you will truly be informed. Maybe you will need recipes, maybe you won’t have soul-cooking going on but you will never not rock out instructions ever again.

Get On it!