Cooking audiobooks

Calendar Mysteries #6: June Jam

By: Ron Roy

Narrated by: Jim Meskimen

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

It's a mystery every month from popular A to Z Mysteries author Ron Roy! With the younger siblings of the A to Z Mysteries kids!

June is for Jam...

In the sixth book of the Calendar Mysteries - an early chapter book mystery series - Bradley, Brian, Nate, and Lucy want to make homemade strawberry jam for Father's Day. Unfortunately, it's not as... 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 Dukan Diet

By: Pierre Dukan

Narrated by: Nicholas Bell

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

# 1 international bestselling diet book coming to North America
 
Devised by Dr. Pierre Dukan, a French medical doctor who has spent his career helping people to lose weight, the Dukan Diet rejects counting calories and promises permanent weight loss while allowing adherents to eat as much as they like.
 
Originally published in 2000, the Dukan... 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

The French Chef in America

By: Alex Prud'homme

Narrated by: Alex Prud'homme

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The enchanting story of Julia Child's years as TV personality and beloved cookbook author--a sequel in spirit to My Life in France--by her great-nephew

Julia Child is synonymous with French cooking, but her legacy runs much deeper. Now, her great-nephew and My Life in France coauthor vividly recounts the myriad ways in which she profoundly... 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

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

It Was Me All Along

By: Andie Mitchell

Narrated by: Andie Mitchell

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A heartbreakingly honest, endearing memoir of incredible weight loss by a young food blogger who battles body image issues and overcomes food addiction to find self-acceptance.
 
All her life, Andie Mitchell had eaten lustily and mindlessly. Food was her babysitter, her best friend, her confidant, and it provided a refuge from her fractured... Read more

In Tuscany

By: Frances Mayes & Edward Mayes

Narrated by: Frances Mayes & Edward Mayes

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A lavishly illustrated ode to the joys of Tuscany’s people, food, landscapes, and art, from the bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun and See You in the Piazza
 
“A love letter to Italy written in precise and passionate language of near-poetic density.”—Newsday
 
In Tuscany celebrates the abundant pleasures of life in Italy as it is lived at... Read more

The Sweet Potato Queens' Big-Ass Cookbook (and Financial Planner)

By: Jill Conner Browne

Narrated by: Jill Conner Browne

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

They’re wild, beloved, and all-around fabulous, but with the Sweet Potato Queens, there’re just never enough good times—or enough good eats. Well, now all fabulous women everywhere can have their own mountains of royal fun and food, because bestselling author and Boss Queen Jill Conner Browne is revealing her big-ass top secret recipes—and the... Read more

Hallelujah! The Welcome Table

By: Maya Angelou

Narrated by: Maya Angelou

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Throughout Maya Angelou’s life, from her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas, to her world travels as a bestselling writer, good food has played a central role. Preparing and enjoying homemade meals provides a sense of purpose and calm, accomplishment and connection. Now in Hallelujah! The Welcome Table, Angelou shares memories pithy and ... Read more

Nate the Great and the Monster Mess

By: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

Narrated by: John Lavelle

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Beginning readers are introduced to the detective mystery genre in these chapter books. Perfect for the Common Core, kids can problem-solve with Nate, using logical thinking to solve mysteries! 

Nate the Great loves his mother’s Monster Cookies. But now her Monster Cookie recipe is missing! Nate and his dog, Sludge, get to work. They find lots of... Read more

Any Way You Slice It #9

By: Nancy Krulik

Narrated by: Anne Bobby

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Katie offers to help the owner of her favorite pizza shop run a pizza-eating contest. But when Katie turns into Louie the chef, how will the pizzas for the contest get made? Katie's clueless! She's never cooked anything without her mom before! Read more

The Amen Solution

By: Daniel G. Amen, M.D.

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A breakthrough, easy-to-follow brain-based program to lose weight and keep it off—for the rest of your life—from the bestselling author of Change Your Brain, Change Your Body, Magnificent Mind at Any Age, and Change Your Brain, Change Your Life
 
Have you tried diet after diet without success? Want to know the two major secrets why most diets... Read more

Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking

By: Anya von Bremzen

Narrated by: Kathleen Gati

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generations  
 
     Born in 1963, in an era of bread shortages, Anya grew up in a communal Moscow apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen. She sang odes to Lenin,... Read more

Provence, 1970

By: Luke Barr

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Provence, 1970 is about a singular historic moment. In the winter of that year, more or less coincidentally, the iconic culinary figures James Beard, M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, Richard Olney, Simone Beck, and Judith Jones found themselves together in the South of France. They cooked and ate, talked and argued, about the future of food in... 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

Mastering the Art of French Eating

By: Ann Mah

Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The memoir of a young diplomat’s wife who must reinvent her dream of living in Paris—one dish at a time

When journalist Ann Mah’s diplomat husband is given a three-year assignment in Paris, Ann is overjoyed. A lifelong foodie and Francophile, she immediately begins plotting gastronomic adventures à deux. Then her husband is called away to Iraq on... Read more

Sous Chef

By: Michael Gibney

Narrated by: Fred Berman

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME

The back must slave to feed the belly. . . . In this urgent and unique book, chef Michael Gibney uses twenty-four hours to animate the intricate camaraderie and culinary choreography in an upscale New York restaurant kitchen. Here readers will find all the details, in rapid-fire... Read more

Food: A Love Story

By: Jim Gaffigan

Narrated by: Jim Gaffigan

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Comedian Jim Gaffigan reveals his most intimate food memories, opinions, and fantasies that will keep you laughing all the way to the refrigerator. 

“What are my qualifications to write this book? None really. So why should you read it? Here’s why: I’m a little fat. If a thin guy were to write about a love of food and eating I’d highly recommend... Read more

My Kitchen Year

By: Ruth Reichl

Narrated by: Ruth Reichl

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Los Angeles Times • NPR • Men’s Journal • BookPage • Booklist • Publishers Weekly

In the fall of 2009, the food world was rocked when Gourmet magazine was abruptly shuttered by its parent company. No one was more stunned by this unexpected turn of events than its beloved... Read more

Garlic and Sapphires

By: Ruth Reichl

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

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

French Women Don't Get Fat

By: Mireille Guiliano

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Stylish, convincing, wise, funny–and just in time: the ultimate non-diet book, which could radically change the way you think and live.

French women don’t get fat, but they do eat bread and pastry, drink wine, and regularly enjoy three-course meals. In her delightful tale, Mireille Guiliano unlocks the simple secrets of this “French paradox”–how... Read more

The Big Oyster

By: Mark Kurlansky

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Before New York City was the Big Apple, it could have been called the Big Oyster. Now award-winning author Mark Kurlansky tells the remarkable story of New York by following the trajectory of one of its most fascinating inhabitants–the oyster, whose influence on the great metropolis remains unparalleled.

For centuries New York was famous for its... Read more