Cooking audiobooks

A Bold Return to Giving a Damn

By: Will Harris

Narrated by: Will Harris

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

"If I could have one wish it is that every eater in America would read this book." —Ruth Reichl

From a pioneer of the regenerative agriculture movement, a memoir-meets-manifesto on betting the farm on a better future for our food, animals, land, local communities, and our climate

Raised as a fourth-generation farmer, when Will Harris inherited... Read more

Cook Your Butt Off!

By: Rocco DiSpirito

Narrated by: Rocco DiSpirito

Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Turn the kitchen into your gym! #1 New York Times bestseller and celebrity chef Rocco DiSpirito helps you stay ahead of your calorie intake by cooking healthy and delicious dishes--all sugar-, gluten-, and lactose-free--designed to burn more calories than they contain!

Cardio Cooking is a uniquely engineered type of cooking formulated to help... Read more

Picnic in Provence

By: Elizabeth Bard

Narrated by: Elizabeth Bard

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of Lunch in Paris takes us on another delicious journey, this time to the heart of Provence.

Ten years ago, New Yorker Elizabeth Bard followed a handsome Frenchman up a spiral staircase to a love nest in the heart of Paris. Now, with a baby on the way and the world's flakiest croissant around the corner, Elizabeth is sure... Read more

The 22-Day Revolution

By: Marco Borges

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The renowned exercise physiologist, hailed by Jay-Z as “the world’s best trainer,” shares his groundbreaking plant-based diet.If you want to lose weight, if you want to be fitter and stronger than ever before, The 22-Day Revolution is your solution. Founded on the principle that it takes twenty-one days to make or break a habit, The 22-Day... Read more

Delancey

By: Molly Wizenberg

Narrated by: Caroline Shaffer

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In this funny, frank, and tender memoir, the author of the New York Times bestseller A Homemade Life and the blog Orangette recounts how opening a restaurant sparked the first crisis of her young marriage.When Molly Wizenberg married Brandon Pettit, he was a trained composer with a handful of offbeat interests: espresso machines, wooden boats,... Read more

Citizen Coke

By: Bartow J. Elmore

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Coke's insatiable thirst for resources shapes the company and reshapes the globe in this absorbing history.Coca-Cola's success in building a global empire out of sugary water drew on more than a secret formula and brilliant advertising. The real secret to Coke's success was its strategy, from the beginning, to offload production costs and risks... Read more

Life from Scratch

By: Sasha Martin

Narrated by: Andi Arndt

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Sasha Martin set herself a rather ambitious goal: to cook—and eat—her way around the world with 196 recipes from 196 countries in 196 weeks. Enter Global Table Adventure, a project that proves to be more than just a culinary challenge as Sasha attempts to navigate the vicissitudes of marriage, motherhood, and life’s failures and successes, all... Read more

In a French Kitchen

By: Susan Herrmann Loomis

Narrated by: Susan Herrmann Loomis

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In a French Kitchen is a delightful celebration of French life and the cooks who turn even the simplest meals into an occasion.Even before Susan Herrmann Loomis wrote her now-classic memoir, On Rue Tatin, American readers have been compelled by books about the French's ease with cooking. With In a French Kitchen, Loomis—an expat who long ago... Read more

Bread, Wine, Chocolate

By: Simran Sethi

Narrated by: Therese Plummer

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning journalist Simran Sethi explores the history and cultural importance of our most beloved tastes, paying homage to the ingredients that give us daily pleasure, while providing a thoughtful wake-up call to the homogenization that is threatening the diversity of our food supply.Food is one of the greatest pleasures of human life. Our... Read more

Fast Food, Good Food

By: Weil MD

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Delicious, nutritious, quick, and easy recipes from bestselling author Dr. Andrew Weil's own kitchen.

These days, fewer people than ever are cooking meals at home. Convincing ourselves that we don't have time to cook, we've forgotten how fast, simple, and wonderfully satisfying it can be to prepare delicious meals in our own kitchens for the... Read more

Healthy at Home

By: Tieraona Low Dog

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

At a time when taking charge of your own health care is all the more essential, respected doctor and Andrew Weil proteg├®e Tieraona Low Dog advises on the art and science of healing at home. In this follow-up to Life Is Your Best Medicine, get the how, when, and why of getting better and staying well with homemade remedies that the doctor... Read more

The Christmas Cookie Club

By: Ann Pearlman

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Ann Pearlman’s irresistible novel provides the perfect ingredients for a fun and touching read about a group of women who gather each year to share a journey of friendship, hope, heartbreak—and recipes.

Every year at Christmastime, Marnie and her closest girlfriends mark their calendars for the cookie exchange. Everyone has to bring a batch of... Read more

Eat More Better

By: Dan Pashman

Narrated by: Dan Pashman

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

What if you could make everything you eat more delicious?

As creator of the WNYC podcast The Sporkful and host of the Cooking Channel web series You're Eating It Wrong, Dan Pashman is obsessed with doing just that. Eat More Better weaves science and humor into a definitive, illustrated guidebook for anyone who loves food. But this book isn’t for... Read more

The Third Plate

By: Dan Barber

Narrated by: Dan Barber

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

“Not since Michael Pollan has such a powerful storyteller emerged to reform American food.” —The Washington Post

Today’s optimistic farm-to-table food culture has a dark secret: the local food movement has failed to change how we eat. It has also offered a false promise for the future of food. In his visionary New York Times–bestselling book,... Read more

The Wild Diet

By: Abel James

Narrated by: Abel James

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The creator of The Fat-Burning Man Show shares his revolutionary Paleo-inspired weight-loss program

Every month, half a million visitors download The Fat-Burning Man Show, eager to learn the secret of Abel James’s incredible weight-loss success. Growing up on a defunct farm in the backwoods of New Hampshire, James had easy access to a host of... Read more

LeBootcamp Diet

By: Valerie Orsoni

Narrated by: Elea Oberon

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER!

Valerie Orsoni's French diet sensation comes to America! Discover the food and fitness plan that's changed over a million lives...delicious recipes included.

DETOX/ATTACK/MAINTENANCE

After a lifetime of insane regimens, weight fluctuations, and feeling utterly demoralized, Valerie Orsoni had enough of the diet scene.... Read more

Puttin' on the Grits

By: Deborah Ford

Narrated by: Deborah Ford

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Family and friends are the center of life in the South, and kitchens the center of Southern homes, so there is no better way to celebrate Southern traditions than a book on entertaining. From the heartfelt love in Grandma’s dumplings to the stomping good fun at a hoedown, Southern entertaining is special. This book will help everyone to be as... Read more

Don't Eat This Book

By: Morgan Spurlock

Narrated by: Morgan Spurlock

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

For 30 days, Morgan Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald’s as part of an investigation into the effects of fast food on American health. The resulting documentary earned him an Academy Award nomination and broke box-office records worldwide.But there’s more to the story, and in Don’t Eat This Book, Spurlock examines everything from school lunch... Read more

The Omnivore's Dilemma

By: Michael Pollan

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 15 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Toast

By: Nigel Slater

Narrated by: Nigel Slater

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A deliciously evocative story of childhood in 1960s suburban England from one of theUnited Kingdom's best-loved writers, Nigel Slater

Toast is the truly extraordinary story of a childhood remembered through food. In each chapter, as Nigel Slater takes us on a tour of the contents of his family's pantry—rice pudding, tinned ham, cream soda,... Read more

Born Round

By: Frank Bruni

Narrated by: Frank Bruni

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times restaurant critic's heartbreaking and hilarious account of how he learned to love food just enough

Frank Bruni was born round. Round as in stout, chubby, and always hungry. His relationship with eating was difficult and his struggle with it began early. When named the restaurant critic for The New York Times in 2004, he... 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

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

The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry

By: Kathleen Flinn

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Read Kathleen Flinn's posts on the Penguin Blog.

This is the funny and inspiring account of Kathleen Flinn’s struggle in a stew of hot-tempered chefs, competitive classmates, her own “wretchedly inadequate” French, and the basics of French cuisine. Flinn was a thirty-six-year-old middle manager trapped on the corporate ladder—until her boss... Read more