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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Fish that Ate the Whale
By: Rich Cohen
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
When Samuel Zemurray arrived in America in 1891, he was tall, gangly, and penniless. When he died in the grandest house in New Orleans sixty-nine years later, he was among the richest, most powerful men in the world. In between, he worked as a fruit peddler, banana hauler, dockside hustler, and plantation owner. He battled and conquered the... Read more
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Living Beyond Your Feelings
By: Joyce Meyer
Narrated by: Sandra McCollom
Length: 7 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
The average person has 70,000 thoughts every day, and many of those thoughts trigger a corresponding emotion. No wonder so many of us often feel like we're controlled by our emotions. Our lives would be much improved if we controlled them.
In LIVING BEYOND YOUR FEELINGS, Joyce Meyer examines the gamut of feelings that human beings experience. She... Read more