Cooking bestsellers

Be Ready When the Luck Happens

A Memoir

By: Ina Garten
Narrated by: Ina Garten
Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

“A prominent fixture in the cooking world for decades, Ina Garten has at last written a book about her life, Be Ready When the Luck Happens. Readers and cooks know her for her uncomplicated, delicious recipes, and a relaxed style that makes entertaining look easy. Now at the age of 76 years, Ina has plenty of interesting things to say about... Read more

What I Ate in One Year

(and related thoughts)

By: Stanley Tucci
Narrated by: Stanley Tucci
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

“Getting to hear Stanley Tucci in your ears for 7 hours? What a dream! Listen as he describes his love of food, friends, and family in this delightful audiobook. Read more

Crying in H Mart

A Memoir

By: Michelle Zauner
Narrated by: Michelle Zauner
Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

“In Crying in H Mart Michelle Zauner goes into detail about her mothers cancer, the nights she spent next to her bed, the secrets she learned about her later on, the small yet wonderful moments she remembers with clarity, and of course the raw emotion that goes with losing a mother. I had gotten over halfway through when I fell asleep listening... Read more

Taste

My Life Through Food

By: Stanley Tucci
Narrated by: Stanley Tucci
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

“If I did not already love Stanley Tucci before this, I would most certainly love him now. In true Stanley Tucci fashion, this memoir/cookbook/food writing tome is witty, acerbic, candid, and very, delicious. This book is a gift for foodies and non-foodies alike, but I dare you not to become a foodie after reading. I especially enjoyed the... Read more

Kitchen Confidential

Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

By: Anthony Bourdain
Narrated by: Anthony Bourdain
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

When Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote "Don't Eat Before You Read This" in The New Yorker, he spared no one's appetite, revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door. In Kitchen Confidential, he expanded the appetizer into a deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet that lays out his twenty-five years of sex, drugs, and haute cuisine.

From his... Read more

Raw Dog

The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

By: Jamie Loftus
Narrated by: Jamie Loftus
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

“Raw Dog by Jamie Loftus, (host of The Lolita Podcast and Ghost Church), covers all the basics you'd expect from a writer embarking on a road trip to taste test all the hottest pork tubes in America - a crumbling relationship due to a distaste for mustard, xenophobia and sexism in the competitive hot-dog eating circuit, and the horrible... Read more

In the Weeds

Lovelight Farms: Book #2

By: B.K. Borison
Narrated by: Pippa Jayne & Dane Anderson
Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

One incredible weekend in Maine, and Beckett Porter is officially a distracted man. He’s not unfamiliar with hot and heavy flings. He knows how it goes. But Evie wove some sort of magic over him during their tumble in the sheets. He can’t stop thinking about her laugh, her hand pressed flat against his chest, her smiling mouth at his neck, her... Read more

Bite by Bite

Nourishments and Jamborees

By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Narrated by: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays about food, offering a banquet of tastes, smells, memories, associations, and marvelous curiosities from natureIn Bite by Bite, poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil explores the way food and drink evoke our associations and remembrances—a subtext or... Read more

Bourdain

The Definitive Oral Biography

By: Laurie Woolever
Narrated by: Laurie Woolever, Christopher Bourdain, José Andrés, Nigella Lawson, W. Kamau Bell & Full Cast
Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

An unprecedented behind-the-scenes view into the life of Anthony Bourdain from the people who knew him best.When Anthony Bourdain died in June 2018, fans around the globe came together to celebrate the life of an inimitable man who had dedicated his life to traveling nearly everywhere (and eating nearly everything), shedding light on the lives... Read more

Endangered Eating

America's Vanishing Foods

By: Sarah Lohman
Narrated by: Sarah Lohman
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Apples, a common New England crop, have been called the United States' most endangered food. The iconic Texas Longhorn cattle is categorized at critical risk for extinction. Unique date palms, found nowhere else on the planet, grow in California’s Coachella Valley, but the family farms that caretake them are shutting down. Apples, cattle,... Read more

Noodles on a Bicycle

By: Kyo Maclear
Narrated by: Sarah Skaer
Length: 12 minutes

A vibrant historical children's book about Tokyo's bicycle food deliverers, or demae, who balanced towering trays of steaming hot noodles on their shoulders while navigating crowded city streets. When the deliverymen set off in the morning, the children wait for the flicker of pedal and wheel. It's the demae—delivery men—setting off to deliver... Read more

The Omnivore's Dilemma

A Natural History of Four Meals

By: Michael Pollan
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 15 hours 53 minutes

One of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year

Winner of the James Beard Award

Author of #1 New York Times Bestsellers In Defense of Food and Food Rules

What should we have for dinner? Ten years ago, Michael Pollan confronted us with this seemingly simple question and, with The Omnivore’s Dilemma, his brilliant and eye-opening... Read more

Girly Drinks

A World History of Women and Alcohol

By: Mallory O'Meara
Narrated by: Mallory O'Meara
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

“What! A! Book! As an avid nonfiction reader I don't say this lightly: Girly Drinks might be one of the best written 'untold stories' I've ever come across. O'Meara covers several centuries and nearly every continent in this sweeping history. Her tone is playful without dismissing the importance of her record-correcting work. Girly Drinks updated... Read more

Undo It!

How Simple Lifestyle Changes Can Reverse Most Chronic Diseases

By: Dean Ornish, M.D. & Anne Ornish
Narrated by: Dean Ornish, M.D. & Anne Ornish
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • By the pioneer of lifestyle medicine, a simple, scientifically program proven to often reverse the progression of the most common and costly chronic diseases.

Long rated “#1 for Heart Health” by U.S. News & World Report, Dr. Ornish’s Program has recently been shown to often improve cognition and function in patients with... Read more

Maybe It's a Sign

By: E. L. Shen
Narrated by: Jennifer Sun Bell
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Seventh grader Freya June Sun has always believed in the Chinese superstitions spoon-fed to her since birth—but ever since her dad’s death a year ago, she’s become obsessed, believing that her father is sending her messages through signs from the beyond. Like how, on her way to an orchestra concert where she’s dreading her viola solo, a pair of... Read more

Pizza and Other Yummy Stories

Highlights Stories

By: Highlights For Children
Narrated by: Highlights For Children
Length: 13 minutes

Culinary traditions! Enjoy mouthwatering poems about pizza and pancakes. See the importance of family traditions and that food can bring people together. Learn how pizza became a popular food and make a mini pizza of your own. Stories by Debbie Lecy, Barbara Kanninen, Christina G. Rossetti, Karin Gaspartich, and Dawn King. Read more

Why I Cook

By: Tom Colicchio
Narrated by: Will Damron & Tom Colicchio
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Tom Colicchio cooked his first recipe at 13 years old—a stuffed eggplant from an issue of Cuisine magazine that he picked up out of boredom—and it changed his life. 

Listeners are in for a treat as the talented Will Damron (who has read over 700 audiobooks) delivers an immersive account of Emmy Award-winning celebrity chef and beloved... Read more

Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger

A Memoir

By: Lisa Donovan
Narrated by: Lisa Donovan
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Named a Favorite Book for Southerners in 2020 by Garden & Gun 

"Donovan is such a vivid writer—smart, raunchy, vulnerable and funny— that if her vaunted caramel cakes and sugar pies are half as good as her prose, well, I'd be open to even giving that signature buttermilk whipped cream she tops her desserts with a try.”—Maureen... Read more

Strega Nona

By: Tomie dePaola
Narrated by: Tomie dePaola
Length: 11 minutes

Featuring Tomie dePaola retelling his classic story against a charming musical score!

When Strega Nona leaves him alone with her magic pasta pot, Big Anthony is determined to show the townspeople how it works in this classic Caldecott Honor book from Tomie dePaola.

Strega Nona—“Grandma Witch”—is the source for potions, cures, magic, and comfort... Read more

Save Me the Plums

My Gourmet Memoir

By: Ruth Reichl
Narrated by: Ruth Reichl
Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

“Ruth Reichl's latest memoir is delectable! The audio was superb. For readers who enjoy behind the scenes, travel, and food. Loved it! Read more

The Cooking Gene

A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South

By: Michael W. Twitty
Narrated by: Michael W. Twitty
Length: 15 hours 20 minutes

2018 James Beard Foundation Book of the Year | 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner inWriting | Nominee for the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction | #75 on The Root100 2018A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating memoir of Southern cuisine and... Read more

Smitten Kitchen Keepers: A Kitchen Counter Conversation

A Random House Audiobook Original

By: Deb Perelman
Narrated by: Deb Perelman
Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Deb Perelman, the author of three bestselling cookbooks and one of the internet's most successful food bloggers, takes listeners through some of her favorite recipes from her third book, Smitten Kitchen Keepers, in a special audio edition—Smitten Kitchen Keepers: A Kitchen Counter Conversation.

What makes a truly perfect recipe for spaghetti and... Read more

A Waiter in Paris

Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City

By: Edward Chisholm
Narrated by: Tristam Summers
Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

An evocative portrait of the underbelly of contemporary Paris as seen through the eyes of a young waiter scraping out a living in the City of Light.



A waiter's job is to deceive you. They want you to believe in a luxurious calm because on the other side of that door . . . is hell.



Edward Chisholm's spellbinding memoir of his time as a Parisian... Read more

A Thousand Feasts

Small Moments of Joy … A Memoir of Sorts

By: Nigel Slater
Narrated by: Nigel Slater
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From award-winning writer Nigel Slater, comes a new and exquisitely written collection of notes, memoir, stories and small moments of joy. 'Nigel Slater’s prose is the rarest delicacy of all: exquisite yet effortless, filled with... Read more

You Gotta Eat

Real-Life Strategies for Feeding Yourself When Cooking Feels Impossible

By: Margaret Eby
Narrated by: Erin Moon
Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

A trained chef teaches you how to keep yourself fed in the face of stress, burnout, and exhaustion—and have fun doing it.Delivery is expensive. Eating a spoonful of peanut butter is depressing. You can’t imagine having the energy to chop an onion. But somehow, you gotta eat. How does anyone feed themselves under these conditions?Enter You Gotta... Read more

The Good Drinker

How I Learned to Love Drinking Less

By: Adrian Chiles
Narrated by: Adrian Chiles
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

'I've occasionally been asked why it is that I need to go for a drink before watching the Albion play. I've always answered with something lame, along the lines of, "You wanna try watching us sober" ... where does this urge come from? I've raced off to games hours early to give me a chance to drink a lot of beer in a relatively short time ...... Read more

Fry Bread

A Native American Family Story

By: Kevin Noble Maillard
Narrated by: Kevin Noble Maillard
Length: 34 minutes

Fry bread is food. It is warm and delicious, piled high on a plate. Fry bread is time. It brings families together for meals and new memories. Fry bread is nation. It is shared by many, from coast to coast and beyond. Fry bread is us. It is a celebration of old and new, traditional and modern, similarity and difference. Told in lively and... Read more

Eat a Peach

A Memoir

By: David Chang & Gabe Ulla
Narrated by: David Chang
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

“Chef David Chang provides a candid glimpse into the culinary world, but this memoir isn't just for foodies. It's a story about a first generation Korean-American grappling with his personal and cultural identity. Chang does not paint a perfect picture of himself. He is honest about his shortcomings and struggles with mental health. A great... Read more

Beantown Pals Volume 1

The Adventures of Bucky and Betty

Beantown Pals: Book #1

By: Tom Hayes & Tammy Pooler
Narrated by: Tom Hayes & Tammy Pooler
Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Bucky and Betty are two of the most widely-known descendants of Jack’s magic beans! Join this dynamic duo in their whimsical, food-inspired community, where Beantown pals live in milk carton skyscrapers, cozy teapots, and gleaming cheese graters. Even their vehicles are items found in the kitchen! In Beantown, all beans are different. Diversity... Read more

Notes from a Young Black Chef

A Memoir

By: Kwame Onwuachi & Joshua David Stein
Narrated by: Kwame Onwuachi
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

“Kwame Onwuachi’s story shines a light on food and culture not just in American restaurants or African American communities but around the world.” —Questlove
 
By the time he was twenty-seven years old, Kwame Onwuachi had opened—and closed—one of the most talked about restaurants in America. He had launched his own catering company with twenty... Read more

The Cake Master and Other Birthday Stories

Highlights Stories

By: Highlights For Children
Narrated by: Highlights For Children
Length: 21 minutes

Happy birthday! Evan's dad is a cake master, so Evan decides he wants to impress his dad with a cake of his own. Will his dad be able to help turn around his disasterpiece? Mr. Sippey bakes one of his famous birthday cakes only to find it has gone missing! Where could it be? Matthew is tasked with figuring out a birthday riddle. Eli's birthday... Read more

Ginger and Chrysanthemum

By: Kristen Mai Giang
Narrated by: Quyen Ngo
Length: 9 minutes

No doubt you can be close to someone who's very different from you. Ginger is excitable; she leaps into action, throwing herself headfirst into any project. Chrysanthemum is cooler-headed; she likes to plan, she's organized. She makes lists. Yet they are cousins, close as two beans in a pod.But planning Grandma's birthday together is a pretty... Read more

The Box House and Other Crafty Stories

Highlights Stories

By: Highlights For Children
Narrated by: Highlights For Children
Length: 11 minutes

Finding solutions! See what Elijah can do with only a cardboard box and a little creativity. Learn about the difference between building a Lincoln Log cabin and a log home. Watch as Tex and Indi rescue their cat Cow from a tree. Find out how the three little worms make a beautiful bookcase. Discover all that you can build with toothpicks, glue,... Read more

Nourishing Traditions

The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats

By: Sally Fallon & Mary G. Enig
Narrated by: Camille Mazant
Length: 22 hours 22 minutes

This well-researched, thought-provoking audio guide to traditional foods contains a startling message: Animal fats and cholesterol are not villains but vital factors in the diet, necessary for normal growth, proper function of the brain and nervous system, protection from disease and optimum energy levels. Sally Fallon dispels the myths of the... Read more

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat - Abridged

Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking

By: Samin Nosrat
Narrated by: Samin Nosrat
Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

*Over 1 million copies sold * New York Times bestseller * Winner of the James Beard Award and multiple IACP Cookbook Awards * Available as a Netflix series *

Transform how you prep, cook, and think about food with this visionary master class in cooking by Samin Nosrat that distills decades of professional experience into just four simple... Read more

If You Can't Take the Heat

Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

By: Geraldine DeRuiter
Narrated by: Geraldine DeRuiter
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the James Beard Award–winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays on how food and cooking stoke the flames of her feminism.

“With charm and humor, Geraldine DeRuiter welcomes us into her personal history and thus reconnects us with ourselves.”—Mikki Kendall, New York Times bestselling author... Read more

Finding Freedom

A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch

By: Erin French
Narrated by: Erin French
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

“Erin French's memoir is so impressive, highly engrossing, and also so tough to read. She brings us through her life, all the highest peaks and deepest valleys and emphasizes the tremendous effort she has made to come back from each low point. I often listened to French's narration with bated breath, shocked at how much she has overcome in such a... Read more

Garlic and Sapphires

The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise

By: Ruth Reichl
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

GARLIC AND SAPPHIRES is Ruth Reichl's riotous account of the many disguises she employs to dine anonymously. There is her stint as Molly Hollis, a frumpy blond with manicured nails and an off-beige Armani suit that Ruth takes on when reviewing Le Cirque. The result: her famous double review of the restaurant: first she ate there as Molly; and... Read more

Ultra-Processed People

Why We Can't Stop Eating Food That Isn't Food

By: Chris van Tulleken
Narrated by: Chris van Tulleken & Dr. Xand van Tulleken
Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

The Omnivore's Dilemma meets Fast Food Nation from a global perspective in this game-changing look at the science, economics, and history of ultra-processed food and the industry's effect on our health and planet.

It’s not you, it’s the food.

How much of our daily caloric intake comes from ingesting substances that, technically speaking, do not... Read more

Your Table Is Ready

Tales of a New York City Maître D'

By: Michael Cecchi-Azzolina
Narrated by: Michael Cecchi-Azzolina
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

"Trained in acting and a lifer in the restaurant business, Michael Cecchi-Azzolina doles out opinions in the tone of an authentic New Yorker. He narrates with a good pace and rhythm. The inner workings of the restaurant world as revealed are exhilarating but often sordid and salacious....this is an entertaining and insightful audiobook."-... Read more

Love, Loss, and What We Ate

A Memoir

By: Padma Lakshmi
Narrated by: Padma Lakshmi
Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

A vivid memoir of food and family, survival and triumph, Love, Loss, and What We Ate traces the arc of Padma Lakshmi’s unlikely path from an immigrant childhood to a complicated life in front of the camera—a tantalizing blend of Ruth Reichl’s Tender at the Bone and Nora Ephron’s HeartburnLong before Padma Lakshmi ever stepped onto a television... Read more

My Life in France

By: Julia Child
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

In her own words, here is the captivating story of Julia Child’s years in France, where she fell in love with French food and found her “true calling.”

From the moment the ship docked in Le Havre, en route to Paris, in the fall of 1948, Julia had an awakening that changed her life. Soon this tall, outspoken gal from Pasadena, California, who... Read more

From the Desk of Zoe Washington

Zoe Washington

By: Janae Marks
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

“On Zoe's 12th birthday, she is looking through the mail for happy wishes when she discovers a letter from her birth father sent from the prison he has been serving his sentence in since she was born. Emotions and questions abound: should she trust this man she has never met? What would happen if she wrote back? Is it ok to keep it a secret from... Read more

A Spaghetti Tale and Other Saucy Stories

Highlights Stories

By: Highlights For Children
Narrated by: Highlights For Children
Length: 14 minutes

Pizza and spaghetti! Watch as Joe makes pizza. See what mishaps occur when the new girl at school brings a lunchbox of her brother's invention. Laugh at Tedd Arnold's silly story about his cockatoo. Learn with Arizona about how hard it is to have a family member in the military and ways to make the distance feel smaller. Stories by Tedd Arnold,... Read more

Biddledee Bear's Dinner and Other Mealtime Stories

Highlights Stories

By: Highlights For Children
Narrated by: Highlights For Children
Length: 11 minutes

Food! Make a breakfast that will make you smile, then help Biddle Bear count as he eat many types of food. Crack the code of what is in the Garbage Stew. Learn about the colorful lunches children eat in Japan. Stories by Heidi Bee Roemer, Sarah Zelle, Marilyn Kratz, and Teresa V. Mitchum. Read more

The Little Bakery on Rosemary Lane

By: Ellen Berry
Narrated by: Katie Scarfe
Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

‘As comforting as a slice of homemade apple pie’ Red Prepare to fall in love with beautiful village of Burley Bridge. Growing up in a quiet Yorkshire village, Roxanne couldn’t wait to escape and find her place in the world in London. As a high-powered fashion editor she lives a glamorous... Read more

Pete the Cat and the Perfect Pizza Party

Pete the Cat

By: James Dean & Kimberly Dean
Narrated by: James Fouhey
Length: 5 minutes

A groovy New York Times bestseller!
From the bestselling Pete the Cat series, it’s a groovy pizza party that you don’t want to miss!It’s a party, a party, a perfect pizza party!That’s what Pete thinks as he piles the pie high with his favorite topping—pepperoni. But then his friends come over and add their own toppings to the pizza. Will Pete’s... Read more

The Galveston Diet

The Doctor-Developed, Patient-Proven Plan to Burn Fat and Tame Your Hormonal Symptoms

By: Mary Claire Haver, MD
Narrated by: Mary Claire Haver, MD
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

A patient-proven eating and lifestyle program to balance nutrition and sustain weight loss—including more than 40 delicious recipes and 6 weeks of meal plans—tailored to women in midlife.

“I haven’t changed my diet or exercise habits and yet the scale keeps moving in the wrong direction. What’s going on?!”

Time and again, this is the question Dr.... Read more

JELL-O Girls

A Family History

By: Allie Rowbottom
Narrated by: Allie Rowbottom
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

“This is the second masterful memoir I've read in 2018 about the impact of the complicated and fascinating relationships between mothers and daughters (see also THE ELECTRIC WOMAN by Tessa Fontaine). Allie Rowbottom shares the history of her family's business (Jell-O) while also detailing the lives of generations of women oppressed by the... Read more

The Art of Fermentation

An In-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes from Around the World

By: Sandor Ellix Katz
Narrated by: Sean Crisden
Length: 20 hours 16 minutes

The Art of Fermentation is the most comprehensive guide to do-it-yourself home fermentation ever published. Sandor Ellix Katz presents the concepts and processes behind fermentation in ways that are simple enough to guide listeners through their first experience making sauerkraut or yogurt, and in-depth enough to provide greater understanding... Read more