Cooking audiobooks

Bake Sales Are My B*tch

By: April Peveteaux

Narrated by: Amy McFadden

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Living the food allergy life and having a kid who can't have dairy, tree nuts, peanuts, or soy is not easy. And neither is worrying about accommodating all the food requirements at a play date.



From avoiding major food allergens and respecting food preferences like vegetarian or vegan to being aware of religious practices like keeping kosher,... Read more

Gluten Is My Bitch

By: April Peveteaux

Narrated by: April Peveteaux

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Living gluten-free is not a whole lot of fun, but at least April Peveteaux has managed to make it funny. Gluten Is My Bitch is a brutally honest, entertaining look at what living a gluten-free life entails. As an antidote to the tragic news that, no, you will never eat regular donuts again, April provides forty gluten-free comfort food recipes... Read more

Flavor

By: Bob Holmes

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Can you describe how the flavor of halibut differs from red snapper? How Brie differs from cheddar? For most of us, unfortunately, the answer is: badly. Flavor remains a vague, undeveloped concept we don't know enough about to describe—or to appreciate—fully.



In Flavor, Bob Holmes shows us just how much we're missing. He tackles questions like... Read more

A Square Meal

By: Jane Ziegelman & Andrew Coe

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The decade-long Great Depression, a period of shifts in the country's political and social landscape, forever changed the way America eats. Before 1929, America's relationship with food was defined by abundance. But the collapse of the economy, in both urban and rural America, left a quarter of all Americans out of work and... Read more

And a Bottle of Rum

By: Wayne Curtis

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

And a Bottle of Rum tells the raucously entertaining story of America as seen through the bottom of a drinking glass. With a chapter for each of ten cocktails, Wayne Curtis reveals that the homely spirit once distilled from the industrial waste of the exploding sugar trade has managed to infiltrate every stratum of New World society.



Curtis takes... Read more

A Geography of Oysters

By: Rowan Jacobsen

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In this passionate, playful, and indispensable guide, oyster aficionado Rowan Jacobsen takes listeners on a delectable tour of the oysters of North America. Region by region, he describes each oyster's appearance, flavor, origin, and availability, as well as explaining how oysters grow, how to shuck them without losing a finger, how to pair them... Read more

Trim Healthy Mama Plan

By: Pearl Barrett & Serene Allison

Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Counting calories is out. All the food groups are in. Becoming trim and healthy doesn't have to be difficult or painstaking anymore.



After trying almost every fad diet out there, Serene Allison and Pearl Barrett, creators of the Trim Healthy Mama movement, took matters into their own hands. Through trial and error and much research, they created... Read more

The Food and Wine of France

By: Edward Behr

Narrated by: Graham Halstead

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In The Food and Wine of France, influential food writer Edward Behr investigates French cuisine and what it means, in encounters from Champagne to Provence. He tells the stories of French artisans and chefs who continue to work at the highest level. Many people in and out of France have noted for a long time the slow retreat of French cuisine,... Read more

Ingredienti

By: Marcella Hazan & Victor Hazan

Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

When Marcella Hazan died in 2013, the world mourned the passing of the "Godmother of Italian cooking." But her legacy lives on, through her cookbooks and recipes, and in the handwritten notebooks filled with her thoughts on how to select the best ingredients—Ingredienti. Her husband and longtime collaborator Victor has translated and transcribed... Read more

Meathooked

By: Marta Zaraska

Narrated by: Emily Durante

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the great science and health revelations of our time is the danger posed by meat-eating. Every day, it seems, we are warned about the harm producing and consuming meat can do to the environment and our bodies. Many of us have tried to limit how much meat we consume, and many of us have tried to give it up altogether. But it is not easy to... Read more

The One True Barbecue

By: Rien Fertel

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Whole hog barbecue is a culinary art form that is both disappearing and experiencing a renaissance. In The One True Barbecue, Rien Fertel chronicles the uniquely southern art of whole hog barbecue—America's original barbecue—through the professional pitmasters who make a living firing, smoking, flipping, and cooking 200-plus pound pigs.



More than... Read more

Whiskey Business

By: Tom Acitelli

Narrated by: Barry Abrams

Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the underdog story of the improbable rise of small-batch distilling in America. This bracingly written, fast-paced work traces the relationship of Americans to spirits such as bourbon, scotch, vodka, gin, and rum. And it presents the full story of a plucky band of entrepreneurs who disrupted the nation's conception of how those... Read more

Stir

By: Jessica Fechtor

Narrated by: Fechtor Jessica

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

At twenty-eight, Jessica Fechtor was happily immersed in graduate school and her young marriage, and thinking about starting a family. Then one day, she went for a run and an aneurysm burst in her brain. She nearly died. She lost her sense of smell, the sight in her left eye, and was forced to the sidelines of the life she loved.



Jessica's... Read more

Cooking As Fast As I Can

By: Cat Cora

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Before she became a celebrated chef, Cathy Cora was just a girl from Jackson, Mississippi, where days were slow and every meal was made from scratch. Her passion for the kitchen started in her home, where she spent her days internalizing the dishes that would form the cornerstone of her cooking philosophy incorporating her Greek heritage and... Read more

Slice Harvester

By: Colin Atrophy Hagendorf

Narrated by: Roger Wayne

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Since its arrival on US shores in 1905, pizza has risen from an obscure ethnic food to an iconic symbol of American culture. In August 2009, Colin Hagendorf set out to review every regular slice of pizza in Manhattan, and his blog, Slice Harvester, was born. Two years and nearly 400 slices later, he'd been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the... Read more

Combat-Ready Kitchen

By: Anastacia Marx de Salcedo

Narrated by: C.S.E. Cooney

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

You probably don't realize that your supermarket is filled with foods that have a military origin: canned goods, packaged deli meats, TV dinners, cling wrap, energy bars . . . the list is almost endless. In fact, there's a watered-down combat ration lurking in practically every bag, box, can, bottle, jar, and carton Americans buy.



Anastacia Marx... Read more

Extreme Food

By: Bear Grylls

Narrated by: Ralph Lister

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

There's no getting away from it; survival expert Bear Grylls has eaten some pretty extreme things in his time—live tarantulas, raw goat testicles, elephant dung, you name it. In a situation when your life depends on it, you need to put your prejudices aside to keep your stomach filled and your strength up.



Whether it's mastering the art of... 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

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

McIlhenny's Gold

By: Jeffrey Rothfeder

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

After the Civil War ended, Edmund McIlhenny, an ambitious and tenacious Louisiana businessman, found himself with few prospects. The South's economy in ruins and his millions of dollars in Confederacy currency worthless, he had no choice but to return with his wife, Mary, to her family home in Avery Island, a former sugar plantation destroyed by... Read more

Why You Eat What You Eat

By: Rachel Herz, PhD

Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Why You Eat What You Eat examines the sensory, psychological, neuroscientific, and physiological factors that influence our eating habits. Rachel Herz uncovers the fascinating and surprising facts that affect food consumption: bringing reusable bags to the grocery store encourages us to buy more treats; our beliefs about food affect the number... Read more

The Dirty Guide to Wine

By: Alice Feiring

Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Still drinking Cabernet after that one bottle you liked five years ago? It can be overwhelming if not intimidating to branch out from your go-to grape, but everyone wants their next wine to be new and exciting. How to choose the right one? Award-winning wine critic Alice Feiring presents an all-new way to look at the world of wine. While grape... Read more

Around the World in Eighty Wines

By: Mike Veseth

Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by Jules Verne's classic adventure tale, Mike Veseth takes listeners "around the world in eighty wines."



The journey starts in London, Phileas Fogg's home base, and follows Fogg's itinerary to France and Italy before veering off in search of compelling wine stories in Syria, Georgia, and Lebanon. Every glass of wine tells a story, and so... Read more

The Taste of Empire

By: Lizzie Collingham

Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Taste of Empire, acclaimed historian Lizzie Collingham tells the story of how the British Empire's quest for food shaped the modern world. Told through twenty meals over the course of 450 years, from the Far East to the New World, Collingham explains how Africans taught Americans how to grow rice, how the East India Company turned opium... Read more