Food Americana
The Remarkable People and Incredible Stories behind America's Favorite Dishes
By David Page
Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
Length: 7 hours 16 minutes
What is American cuisine? What national menu do we share? What dishes have we chosen, how did they become "American," and how are they likely to evolve from here? In Food Americana, David Page answers all these questions and more.
America is more than just a fast food nation. Food Americana is the inside story of how generations of Americans... Read more »
Tastes Like War
A Memoir
By Grace M. Cho
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes
Grace M. Cho grew up as the daughter of a white American merchant marine and the Korean bar hostess he met abroad. They were one of few immigrants in a xenophobic small town during the Cold War, where identity was politicized by everyday details—language, cultural references, memories, and food. When Grace was fifteen, her dynamic mother... Read more »
Everything is Under Control
A Memoir with Recipes
By Phyllis Grant
Narrated by: Phyllis Grant
Length: 2 hours 7 minutes
Phyllis Grant's Everything Is Under Control is a memoir about appetite as it comes, goes, and refocuses its object of desire. Grant's story follows the sometimes smooth, sometimes jagged, always revealing contours of her life: from her days as a dancer struggling to find her place at Julliard, to her experiences in and out of four-star kitchens... Read more »
Kitchen Confidential
Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
By Anthony Bourdain
Narrated by: Anthony Bourdain
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes
When Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote "Don't Eat Before You Read This" in The New Yorker, he spared no one's appetite, revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door. In Kitchen Confidential, he expanded the appetizer into a deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet that lays out his twenty-five years of sex, drugs, and haute cuisine.
From his... Read more »
Notes from a Young Black Chef
A Memoir
By Kwame Onwuachi & Joshua David Stein
Narrated by: Kwame Onwuachi
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes
“Kwame Onwuachi’s story shines a light on food and culture not just in American restaurants or African American communities but around the world.” —Questlove
By the time he was twenty-seven years old, Kwame Onwuachi had opened—and closed—one of the most talked about restaurants in America. He had launched his own catering company with twenty... Read more »
My Life in France
By Julia Child
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes
In her own words, here is the captivating story of Julia Child’s years in France, where she fell in love with French food and found her “true calling.”
From the moment the ship docked in Le Havre, en route to Paris, in the fall of 1948, Julia had an awakening that changed her life. Soon this tall, outspoken gal from Pasadena, California, who... Read more »
Eat a Peach
A Memoir
By David Chang & Gabe Ulla
Narrated by: David Chang
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes
If you enjoyed Kitchen Confidential, then you’ll love Eat a Peach.
“I'm a sucker for egomaniacal chef memoirs, and this one is no exception. Packed with mistakes, moments of genius and lots of culinary vocabulary, Chang's narration is direct, his style efficient as knife skills on the line. Amazing to think that Momofuku changed the way we eat more than 15 years ago. If you liked "Kitchen Confidential," download this audiobook. ”
Nicole, Bookworm of Edwards
Love, Loss, and What We Ate
A Memoir
By Padma Lakshmi
Narrated by: Padma Lakshmi
Length: 12 hours 37 minutes
A vivid memoir of food and family, survival and triumph, Love, Loss, and What We Ate traces the arc of Padma Lakshmi’s unlikely path from an immigrant childhood to a complicated life in front of the camera—a tantalizing blend of Ruth Reichl’s Tender at the Bone and Nora Ephron’s Heartburn
Long before Padma Lakshmi ever stepped onto a television...
Read more »The Cooking Gene
A Journey Through African-american Culinary History in the Old South
By Michael W. Twitty
Narrated by: Michael W. Twitty
Length: 15 hours 20 minutes
Southern food is integral to the American culinary tradition, yet the question of who "owns" it is one of the most provocative touchpoints in our ongoing struggles over race. In this unique memoir, culinary historian Michael W. Twitty takes listeners to the white-hot center of this fight, tracing the roots of his own family and the charged... Read more »
Taste
My Life Through Food
By Stanley Tucci
Narrated by: Stanley Tucci
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes
Taste
“Hilarious and full of heart, this audiobook, read by the fabulous author Stanley Tucci, will make you laugh, make you hungry, and make you not want to stop listening until the very end. This book will be one I recommend to anyone and everyone.”
Olivia, Author's Note
Save Me the Plums
My Gourmet Memoir
By Ruth Reichl
Narrated by: Ruth Reichl
Length: 7 hours 54 minutes
Save Me the Plums
“You may be cleaning your house or walking your dog, but Ruth Reichl will take you away --to New York, Paris, and the world's best restaurants in her own narration of her years with Gourmet Magazine. Ruth is a consummate storyteller, and if you've read her earlier memoirs you MUST experience this latest; she adds to her mother's story (remember Tender At the Bone?) inserts recipes, and dishes on some prominent names in publishing and food. I'm so glad Ruth read her book to us; I felt like we'd spent the afternoon at a sidewalk cafe.”
Cheryl, Book Passage