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How Michael Pollan Fell in Love With Cooking
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
In the age of pre-packaged food, author Michael Pollan says the most important thing about your diet is the act of actually cooking it. Jeffrey Brown talks to Pollan about his new book, Cooked, which triumphs the gratification of home cooking and the importance of preserving it as a part of daily life. Read more
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Nine Lives
By: Brandon Baltzley
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
At twenty-six years old, Brandon Baltzley was poised for his star turn as the opening chef at Chicago's hotspot Tribute. People called him a prodigy—the Salvador Dali of cooking—and foodie blogs followed his every move. Instead, Brandon walked away from it all and entered rehab to deal with the alcohol and cocaine addiction that had enslaved him... Read more
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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
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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
Bread and Wine
By: Shauna Niequist
Narrated by: Shauna Niequist
Length: 5 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Join New York Times bestselling author Shauna Niequist as she offers an enchanting mix of funny and vulnerable storytelling in this collection of recipes and essays about the surprising and sacred things that happen when people gather around the table.Bread & Wine is a literary feast about the moments and meals that bring us together. With... Read more
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The Home Canning Guide for Everyone Who Eats
By: Tracy Falbe
Narrated by: Kris Keppeler
Length: 1 hour 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Preserve the bounty of your garden, support local growers, claim total control over ingredients, increase your food security, and enjoy great tasting foods that beat the pants off of anything from a factory. All of this is possible with home canning, and you are absolutely capable of mastering this easy-to-learn and affordable food preservation... Read more
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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
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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 Drunken Botanist
By: Amy Stewart
Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Every great drink starts with a plant. Sake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley. Gin was born from a conifer shrub when medieval physicians boiled juniper berries with wine to treat stomach pain. The Drunken Botanist uncovers the surprising botanical history and fascinating science and chemistry of over 150 plants, flowers,... Read more
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Better than Homemade
By: Carolyn Wyman
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Length: 5 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Americans pride themselves in their knack for innovation, and nowhere has America's can-do attitude been more apparent than at the supermarket. Need a cheese that is virtually indestructible? Want to find a way to stretch a pound of hamburger into a hearty main course for a family of five? Hard pressed for time to throw together a home-cooked... Read more
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Thomas Jefferson's Creme Brulee
By: Thomas J. Craughwell
Narrated by: Alan Sklar
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1784, Thomas Jefferson struck a deal with one of his slaves, nineteen-year-old James Hemings. The founding father was traveling to Paris and wanted to bring James along for a particular purpose—to master the art of French cooking. In exchange for James's cooperation, Jefferson would grant his freedom.
Thus began one of the strangest... Read more
Don't Be a Donkey
By: Chadd McArthur
Narrated by: Chadd McArthur
Length: 3 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
"Don't be a Donkey is a true story about the life and career of Chef Chadd McArthur. It is about the lessons, about both kitchen and life, that he learned while working for Gordon Ramsay. Eighteen hours a day, five days a week... when you work with a great chef and leader that much, his wisdom will rub off on you, and at times traumatize... Read more
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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
Bear Wants More
By: Karma Wilson
Narrated by: John McDonough
Length: 6 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times best-selling children's author Karma Wilson has won many prizes such as the National Parenting Publications Children's Resource Gold Award. Her story Bear Wants More is a Children's Book-of-the-Month Club Featured Selection. It's springtime and Bear is waking up from his winter nap. He hasn't had any food in a long time. Bear is... Read more
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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
How Not to F*** Them Up
By: Oliver James
Narrated by: Paul Blake
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
As a mother, are you comfortable in your skin?
Want to know how best to be a working or stay-at-home mum?
Babies have very simple needs, yet many parents are overwhelmed with elaborate advice on how to meet them. In How Not to F*** Them Up, leading child psychologist Oliver James argues that your under-threes do not need training; it's getting... Read more
Sizzle
By: Lee McClain
Narrated by: Laura Hamilton
Length: 5 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Sizzle . . . or burn? Linda Delgado has the best nose in all of Arizona—for cooking, that is. She may be only fourteen, but Linda loves making fresh Mexican food with her aunt Elba and blogging about food with her best friend, Julia. But after Aunt Elba suffers a ministroke, Linda is catapulted across the country and into a whole new life. In... Read more
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Kitchen Round Table - Abridged
By: Marja Samsom
Narrated by: Marja Samsom, Lidia Bastianich, Madhur Jaffrey ...
Length: 1 hour 4 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Join us in this exclusive audio program for candid conversations with luminaries in the food world. Kitchen Round Table brings you inside the homes and hearts of Lidia Bastianich, Madhur Jaffrey, Judith Jones, Betty Fussell, and Deb Perelman. We hear about their earliest food memories and how each slowly made their way into the kitchen and... Read more
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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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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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