Cooking audiobooks

The Case Against Sugar

By: Gary Taubes

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening exposé that makes the convincing case that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us very sick.

Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent today than ever; obesity is at epidemic proportions; nearly... Read more

Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution

By: Richard K. Bernstein

Narrated by: Matt Kugler

Length: 17 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

This modern manual for diabetes management shares useful tips and tricks for creating a structured treatment plan that works for you and your health.

Originally published in 1997, DR. BERNSTEIN'S DIABETES SOLUTION is a unique resource that covers both adult- and childhood-onset diabetes, explains step-by-step how to normalize blood sugar levels... Read more

Notes on a Banana

By: David Leite

Narrated by: David Leite

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The stunning and long-awaited memoir from the beloved founder of the James Beard Award-winning website Leite’s Culinaria—a candid, courageous, and at times laugh-out-loud funny story of family, food, mental illness, and sexual identity.Born into a family of Azorean immigrants, David Leite grew up in the 1960s in a devoutly Catholic, blue-collar,... Read more

Dinner Chez Moi

By: Elizabeth Bard

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Tips, tricks and recipes to make your feasts and fetes more French, from the New York Times bestselling author of Lunch in Paris and Picnic in Provence.

When Elizabeth Bard, a New Yorker raised on Twizzlers and instant mac and cheese, fell for a handsome Frenchman and moved to Paris, she discovered a whole new world of culinary delights. First... Read more

The Coconut Oil Miracle

By: Bruce Fife, CN, ND

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

For years, The Coconut Oil Miracle has been a reliable guide for men and women alike. Now in its fifth edition, this revised and updated version has even more information on the benefits of coconut oil and shows listeners how to use it for maximum effect. Coconut oil is much more than just a fad. It is a uniquely curative elixir that has been... Read more

The Diabetes Solution

By: Jorge E. Rodriguez, MD & Susan Wyler, RDN

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Diabetes Solution, Dr. Jorge Rodriguez and dietitian nutritionist Susan Wyler tell you everything you need to know about this increasingly common disease—from diagnosis to treatment—including the difference between prediabetes and diabetes, ways to prevent serious complications, and the most effective medications and when to start taking... Read more

The Wahls Protocol

By: Eve Adamson & Terry Wahls, MD

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Like many physicians, Dr. Terry Wahls focused on treating her patients' ailments with drugs or surgical procedures—until she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2000. Within three years, her back and stomach muscles had weakened to the point where she needed a tilt-recline wheelchair. Conventional medical treatments were failing her,... Read more

Anything That Moves

By: Dana Goodyear

Narrated by: Jane Jacobs

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A new American cuisine is forming. Animals never before considered or long since forgotten are emerging as delicacies. Parts that used to be for scrap are centerpieces. Ash and hay are fashionable ingredients, and you pay handsomely to breathe flavored air. Going out to a nice dinner now often precipitates a confrontation with a fundamental... Read more

Blessing the Hands That Feed Us

By: Vicki Robin

Narrated by: Vicki Robin

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Taking the locavore movement to heart, bestselling coauthor and social innovator Vicki Robin pledged for one month to eat only food sourced within a ten-mile radius of her home on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound, Washington. Her sustainable diet not only brings to light society's unhealthy dependency on mass-produced, prepackaged foods but also... Read more

50 Foods

By: Edward Behr

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

With 50 Foods, noted authority Edward Behr has created the definitive guide to the foods every food lover must know. A culinary Baedeker, 50 Foods will delight and inform the connoisseur as well as the novice.



Like Behr's celebrated magazine, the Art of Eating, 50 Foods presents simple, practical information about buying, using, preparing, and... Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Judgment of Paris

By: George M. Taber

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History houses, amid its illustrious artifacts, two bottles of wine: a 1973 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon and a 1973 Chateau Montelena Chardonnay. These are the wines that won at the now-famous Paris Tasting in 1976, where a panel of top French wine experts compared some of France's... Read more

Life, on the Line

By: Grant Achatz & Nick Kokonas

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2007, chef Grant Achatz seemingly had it made. He had been named one of the best new chefs in America by Food & Wine in 2002, received the James Beard Foundation Rising Star Chef of the Year Award in 2003, and in 2005 he and Nick Kokonas opened the conceptually radical restaurant Alinea, which was named Best Restaurant in America by... Read more

Veganist

By: Kathy Freston

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Kathy Freston wasn't born a vegan. The bestselling author and renowned wellness expert actually grew up on chicken-fried steak and cheesy grits and loved nothing more than BBQ ribs and vanilla milkshakes. Not until her thirties did she embrace the lifestyle of a veganist—someone who eats a plant-based diet not just for their own personal... Read more

For All the Tea in China

By: Sarah Rose

Narrated by: Sarah Rose

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1848, the British East India Company, having lost its monopoly on the tea trade, engaged Robert Fortune, a Scottish gardener, botanist, and plant hunter, to make a clandestine trip into the interior of China—territory forbidden to foreigners—to steal the closely guarded secrets of tea horticulture and manufacturing. For All the Tea in China... Read more

Knives at Dawn

By: Andrew Friedman

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The Bocuse d'Or is the real-life Top Chef, a biannual cooking competition in France featuring teams from twenty-four countries vying for the top honors. Named after Paul Bocuse, one of the greatest, most influential living chefs, the Bocuse d'Or has become the most sophisticated and closely watched cook-off in the world. Ironically, though... Read more

An Edible History of Humanity

By: Tom Standage

Narrated by: George K. Wilson

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Throughout history, food has acted as a catalyst of social change, political organization, geopolitical competition, industrial development, military conflict, and economic expansion. An Edible History of Humanity is a pithy, entertaining account of how a series of changes—caused, enabled, or influenced by food—has helped to shape and transform... Read more