Cooking audiobooks

On the Noodle Road

By: Jen Lin-Liu

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Feasting her way through an Italian honeymoon, Jen Lin-Liu was struck by culinary echoes of the delicacies she ate and cooked back in China, where she'd lived for more than a decade. Who really invented the noodle? she wondered, like many before her. But also: How had food and culture moved along the Silk Road, the ancient trade route linking... Read more

The Road to Burgundy

By: Ray Walker

Narrated by: Sean Crisden

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Ray Walker had a secure career in finance until a wine-tasting vacation ignited a passion that he couldn't stifle. Ray neglected his work, spending hours poring over ancient French wine-making texts, learning the techniques and the language, and daydreaming about vineyards. After Ray experienced his first taste of wine from Burgundy, he could... Read more

Blue Plate Special

By: Kate Christensen

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

From acclaimed novelist Kate Christensen, Blue Plate Special is a mouthwatering literary memoir about an unusual upbringing and the long, winding path to happiness.

“To taste fully is to live fully.” For Kate Christensen, food and eating have always been powerful connectors to self and world—“a subterranean conduit to sensuality, memory, desire.”... Read more

The 100

By: Jorge Cruise

Narrated by: Fred Berman

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Be a part of the diet revolution and change your relationship with calories foreverAmerica's favorite diet and fitness expert, Jorge Cruise, will change the way you think about calories. For years, conventional wisdom has continued to state the wrong and outdated research that says simply counting calories is the key to weight loss, and if you... Read more

Sex, Lies, and Cookies

By: Lisa Glasberg

Narrated by: Lisa Glasberg

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

One woman's misguided quest for love, sex, and as much airtime as possible . . .On The Howard Stern Show, radio personality Lisa Glasberg, aka Lisa G., is painted as a violin-playing, cookie-baking cat lady, but that's all about to change. This alleged wallflower once used her skills in the kitchen to show up at a suitor's doorstep wearing... Read more

A Greedy Man in a Hungry World

By: Jay Rayner

Narrated by: Jay Rayner

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The UK’s most influential food and drink journalist shoots a few sacred cows of food culture. The doctrine of local food is dead. Farmers’ markets are merely a lifestyle choice for the affluent middle classes. And ‘organic’ has become little more than a marketing label that is way past its sell by date. That may be a little... Read more

Adulting

By: Kelly Williams Brown

Narrated by: Anjili Pal

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

If you graduated from college but still feel like a student . . . if you wear a business suit to job interviews but pajamas to the grocery store . . . if you have your own apartment but no idea how to cook or clean . . . it's OK. But it doesn't have to be this way.

Just because you don't feel like an adult doesn't mean you can't act like one.... Read more

How Michael Pollan Fell in Love With Cooking

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In the age of pre-packaged food, author Michael Pollan says the most important thing about your diet is the act of actually cooking it. Jeffrey Brown talks to Pollan about his new book, Cooked, which triumphs the gratification of home cooking and the importance of preserving it as a part of daily life. Read more

Nine Lives

By: Brandon Baltzley

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

At twenty-six years old, Brandon Baltzley was poised for his star turn as the opening chef at Chicago's hotspot Tribute. People called him a prodigy—the Salvador Dali of cooking—and foodie blogs followed his every move. Instead, Brandon walked away from it all and entered rehab to deal with the alcohol and cocaine addiction that had enslaved him... Read more

The Art of Fermentation

By: Sandor Ellix Katz

Narrated by: Sean Crisden

Length: 20 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Cooked

By: Michael Pollan

Narrated by: Michael Pollan

Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Michael Pollan, the bestselling author of The Omnivore's Dilemma, Food Rules, and How to Change Your Mind, explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen in Cooked. 

Cooked is now a Netflix docuseries based on the book that focuses on the four kinds of "transformations" that occur in cooking. Directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker... Read more

Bread and Wine

By: Shauna Niequist

Narrated by: Shauna Niequist

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Join New York Times bestselling author Shauna Niequist as she offers an enchanting mix of funny and vulnerable storytelling in this collection of recipes and essays about the surprising and sacred things that happen when people gather around the table.Bread & Wine is a literary feast about the moments and meals that bring us together. With... Read more

The Home Canning Guide for Everyone Who Eats

By: Tracy Falbe

Narrated by: Kris Keppeler

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Preserve the bounty of your garden, support local growers, claim total control over ingredients, increase your food security, and enjoy great tasting foods that beat the pants off of anything from a factory. All of this is possible with home canning, and you are absolutely capable of mastering this easy-to-learn and affordable food preservation... Read more

Perfect Health Diet

By: Paul Jaminet & Shou-Ching Jaminet

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Suffering from chronic illness and unable to get satisfactory results from doctors, husband and wife scientists Paul and Shou-Ching Jaminet took an intensely personal interest in health and nutrition. They embarked on five years of rigorous research. What they found changed their lives—and the lives of thousands of their readers.

In Perfect... Read more

Back of the House

By: Scott Haas

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Food writer and clinical psychologist Scott Haas wanted to know what went on inside the mind of a top chef—and what kind of emotional dynamics drove the fast-paced, intense interactions inside a great restaurant. To capture all the heat and hunger, he spent eighteen months immersed in the kitchen of James Beard Award-winner Tony Maws's... Read more

The Drunken Botanist

By: Amy Stewart

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Every great drink starts with a plant. Sake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley. Gin was born from a conifer shrub when medieval physicians boiled juniper berries with wine to treat stomach pain. The Drunken Botanist uncovers the surprising botanical history and fascinating science and chemistry of over 150 plants, flowers,... Read more

Better than Homemade

By: Carolyn Wyman

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Americans pride themselves in their knack for innovation, and nowhere has America's can-do attitude been more apparent than at the supermarket. Need a cheese that is virtually indestructible? Want to find a way to stretch a pound of hamburger into a hearty main course for a family of five? Hard pressed for time to throw together a home-cooked... Read more

Thomas Jefferson's Creme Brulee

By: Thomas J. Craughwell

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1784, Thomas Jefferson struck a deal with one of his slaves, nineteen-year-old James Hemings. The founding father was traveling to Paris and wanted to bring James along for a particular purpose—to master the art of French cooking. In exchange for James's cooperation, Jefferson would grant his freedom.

Thus began one of the strangest... Read more

Don't Be a Donkey

By: Chadd McArthur

Narrated by: Chadd McArthur

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

"Don't be a Donkey is a true story about the life and career of Chef Chadd McArthur.
It is about the lessons, about both kitchen and life, that he learned while working for Gordon Ramsay. Eighteen hours a day, five days a week... when you work with a great chef and leader that much, his wisdom will rub off on you, and at times traumatize you.

The... Read more

Fresh Off the Boat

By: Eddie Huang

Narrated by: Eddie Huang

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW AN ORIGINAL SERIES ON ABC • “Just may be the best new comedy of [the year] . . . based on restaurateur Eddie Huang’s memoir of the same name . . . [a] classic fresh-out-of-water comedy.”—People
 
“Bawdy and frequently hilarious . . . a surprisingly sophisticated memoir about race and assimilation in America . . . as much James Baldwin and... Read more

Bear Wants More

By: Karma Wilson

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling children's author Karma Wilson has won many prizes such as the National Parenting Publications Children's Resource Gold Award. Her story Bear Wants More is a Children's Book-of-the-Month Club Featured Selection. It's springtime and Bear is waking up from his winter nap. He hasn't had any food in a long time. Bear is... Read more

Fat Chance

By: Robert H. Lustig

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Lustig’s 90-minute YouTube video “Sugar: The Bitter Truth”, has been viewed more than two million times. Now, in this much anticipated book, he documents the science and the politics that has led to the pandemic of chronic disease over the last 30 years.

In the late 1970s when the government mandated we get the fat out of our food, the... Read more

How Not to F*** Them Up

By: Oliver James

Narrated by: Paul Blake

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

As a mother, are you comfortable in your skin?
Want to know how best to be a working or stay-at-home mum?

Babies have very simple needs, yet many parents are overwhelmed with elaborate advice on how to meet them. In How Not to F*** Them Up, leading child psychologist Oliver James argues that your under-threes do not need training; it's getting... Read more

Sizzle

By: Lee McClain

Narrated by: Laura Hamilton

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Sizzle . . . or burn? Linda Delgado has the best nose in all of Arizona—for cooking, that is. She may be only fourteen, but Linda loves making fresh Mexican food with her aunt Elba and blogging about food with her best friend, Julia. But after Aunt Elba suffers a ministroke, Linda is catapulted across the country and into a whole new life. In... Read more