Cooking audiobooks

Kitchen Round Table - Abridged

By: Marja Samsom

Narrated by: Marja Samsom, Lidia Bastianich, Madhur Jaffrey ...

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Join us in this exclusive audio program for candid conversations with luminaries in the food world. Kitchen Round Table brings you inside the homes and hearts of Lidia Bastianich, Madhur Jaffrey, Judith Jones, Betty Fussell, and Deb Perelman. We hear about their earliest food memories and how each slowly made their way into the kitchen and... Read more

Consider the Fork

By: Bee Wilson

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Since prehistory, humans have braved the business ends of knives, scrapers, and mashers, all in the name of creating something delicious—or at least edible. In Consider the Fork, award-winning food writer and historian Bee Wilson traces the ancient lineage of our modern culinary tools, revealing the startling history of objects we often take for... Read more

Food of the Gods

By: Terence McKenna

Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Terence McKenna hypothesizes that as the North African jungles receded, giving way to savannas and grasslands near the end of the most recent ice age, a branch of our arboreal primate ancestors left the forest canopy and began living in the open areas beyond. There they experimented with new varieties of foods as they adapted, physically and... Read more

My Berlin Kitchen

By: Luisa Weiss

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

It takes courage to turn your life upside down, especially when everyone is telling you how lucky you are. But sometimes what seems right feels deeply wrong. My Berlin Kitchen tells the story of how one thoroughly confused, kitchen-mad romantic broke off her engagement, quit her dream job, and went across the ocean in search of happiness.Luisa... Read more

Dearie

By: Bob Spitz

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 25 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s rare for someone to emerge in America who can change our attitudes, our beliefs, and our very culture. It’s even rarer when that someone is a middle-aged, six-foot three-inch woman whose first exposure to an unsuspecting public is cooking an omelet on a hot plate on a local TV station.  And yet, that’s exactly what Julia Child did.  The... Read more

The Party

By: Sally Quinn

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

No one knows better than Sally Quinn how to make parties work. She has thrown some of the most talked-about parties and has attended most of the others. Here, she turns her trademark sharp wit on the Washington social scene and offers an irreverent look at what goes on at the parties you read about in the columns. From seating debacles to... Read more

The Sweet Life in Paris

By: David Lebovitz

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Like so many others, David Lebovitz dreamed about living in Paris ever since he first visited the city in the 1980s. Finally, after a nearly two-decade career as a pastry chef and cookbook author, he moved to Paris to start a new life. Having crammed all his worldly belongings into three suitcases, he arrived, hopes high, at his new apartment in... Read more

Steven Raichlen’s Martha’s Vineyard

By: Steven Raichlen

Narrated by: Steven Raichlen

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Join celebrated PBS TV host and New York Times bestselling author, Steven Raichlen, for a personal guided tour of Martha's Vineyard, including his favorite places to shop for the freshest seafood and best local produce. This original companion audio to Raichlen's debut novel, Island Apart, takes us right into Steven's kitchen as he brings the... Read more

Paris, My Sweet

By: Amy Thomas

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Forever a girl obsessed with all things French, sweet freak Amy Thomas landed a gig as rich as the purest dark chocolate: leave Manhattan for Paris to write ad copy for Louis Vuitton. Working on the Champs-Élysées, strolling the charming streets, and exploring the best patisseries and boulangeries, Amy marveled at the magnificence of the City of... Read more

The Man Who Changed the Way We Eat

By: Thomas McNamee

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 1950s, America was a land of overdone roast beef and canned green beans—a gastronomic wasteland. Most restaurants relied on frozen, second-rate ingredients and served bogus "Continental" cuisine. Authentic French, Italian, and Chinese foods were virtually unknown. There was no such thing as food criticism at the time, and no such thing as... Read more

Walter the Baker

By: Eric Carle

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

People come from near and far to buy Walter's delicious bread, cookies, and tarts. Everyone agrees he is the best baker in the whole Duchy. The Duke and Duchess love his sweet rolls for breakfast. Every morning, he carries a basketful of warm rolls to their castle. But one day the cat spills the milk he plans to use for the bread dough. What can... Read more

The Skinny Rules - Abridged

By: Bob Harper & Greg Critser

Narrated by: Bob Harper

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With so much conflicting weight-loss advice out there to confuse your efforts, it’s no wonder you haven’t been successful losing weight and keeping it off. But with Bob Harper, superstar trainer and co-host of NBC’s hit show The Biggest Loser as your personal authority and coach, you can and will finally shed the pounds—whether you want to lose... Read more

What Einstein Kept Under His Hat

By: Marlene Parrish & Robert L. Wolke

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you ever wondered why onions make us cry? Do you believe bananas contain more calories as they ripen and get sweeter? This sequel to the bestselling What Einstein Told His Cook continues Robert L. Wolke's investigations into the science behind our foods. In response to ongoing questions from readers of his nationally syndicated Washington... Read more

The Juice

By: Jay McInerney

Narrated by: Jay McInerney

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

This new collection by the acclaimed novelist—and, according to Salon, “the best wine writer in America”—is generous and far-reaching, deeply knowledgeable and often hilarious. 
            For more than a decade, Jay McInerney’s vinous essays, now featured in The Wall Street Journal, have been praised by restaurateurs (“Filled with small... Read more

The American Way of Eating

By: Tracie McMillan

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

What if you can't afford nine-dollar tomatoes? That was the question award-winning journalist Tracie McMillan couldn't escape as she watched the debate about America's meals unfold, one that urges us to pay food's true cost—which is to say, pay more. So in 2009 McMillan embarked on a groundbreaking undercover journey to see what it takes to eat... Read more

Casper Candlewacks in Attack of the Brainiacs!

By: Ivan Brett

Narrated by: David Thorpe

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Grab your glow in the dark trousers, Casper’s back in this third ridiculously hilarious, hilarously ridiculous madcap adventure. Most villages have an idiot but Casper's village is full of them. So being bright makes poor Casper something of an outsider. A side-splittingly funny for girls and boys, featuring a... Read more

An Economist Gets Lunch

By: Tyler Cowen

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most influential economists of the decade-and the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Stagnation-boldly argues that just about everything you've heard about food is wrong.

Food snobbery is killing entrepreneurship and innovation, says economist, preeminent social commentator, and maverick dining guide blogger Tyler Cowen.... Read more

A History of English Food

By: Clarissa Dickson Wright

Narrated by: Clarissa Dickson Wright

Length: 14 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In this major new history of English food, Clarissa Dickson Wright takes the reader on a journey from the time of the Second Crusade and the feasts of medieval kings to the cuisine - both good and bad - of the present day. She looks at the shifting influences on the national diet as new ideas and ingredients have arrived, and as immigrant... Read more

Girl Hunter

By: Georgia Pellegrini

Narrated by: Amy Rubinate

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens when a classically-trained New York chef and fearless omnivore heads out of the city and into the wild to track down the ingredients for her meals? After abandoning Wall Street to embrace her lifelong love of cooking, Georgia Pellegrini comes face to face with her first kill. From honoring that first turkey to realizing that the... Read more

Wine and War

By: Don Kladstrup & Petie Kladstrup

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1940, France fell to the Nazis and almost immediately the German army began a campaign of pillaging one of the assets the French hold most dear: their wine. Like others in the French Resistance, winemakers mobilized to oppose their occupiers, but the tale of their extraordinary efforts has remained largely unknown—until now. This is the... Read more

All Cheeses Great and Small

By: Alex James

Narrated by: Alex James

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of Alex James’s transition from a leading light of the Britpop movement in the 1990s, to gentleman farmer, artisan cheese-maker and father of five. All Cheeses Great and Small is the follow-up memoir to Alex James's first book, Bit of a Blur, the story of his excessive pop star lifestyle during the... Read more

What Einstein Told His Cook

By: Robert L. Wolke

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Why is red meat red? How do they decaffeinate coffee? Do you wish you
understood the science of food but don't want to plow through dry,
technical books? In What Einstein Told His Cook, University of Pittsburgh chemistry professor emeritus and award-winning Washington Post
food columnist Robert L. Wolke provides reliable and witty ... Read more

Extra Virginity

By: Tom Mueller

Narrated by: Peter Ganim

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

For millennia, fresh olive oil has been a necessity - for food, medicine, beauty, and religion. Today's researchers continue to confirm the remarkable, life-giving properties of true extra-virgin, and 'extra-virgin Italian' has become the highest standard of quality. But what if this symbol of purity has become deeply corrupt? Starting with an... Read more

The Kitchen Counter Cooking School

By: Kathleen Flinn

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

After graduating from Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, writer Kathleen Flinn returned with no idea what to do next, until one day at a supermarket she watched a woman loading her cart with ultraprocessed foods. Flinn's "chefternal" instinct kicked in: she persuaded the stranger to reload with fresh foods, offering her simple recipes for healthy, easy... Read more