Cooking bestsellers

Crying in H Mart

A Memoir

By: Michelle Zauner
Narrated by: Michelle Zauner
Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

“I was struck by just how much I loved this book for how it walks through grief not as a way to leave it behind, but as a way to remember its exact shape. I’m grateful for its funny, self-deprecating, and wise observations, and for its difficult beauty. Read more

Taste

My Life Through Food

By: Stanley Tucci
Narrated by: Stanley Tucci
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

“I loved Tucci's wry writing and very unique take on food! This is a book you can gift just about everyone because it includes so many recipes as well as stories from Tucci's life and career. Though in proportion to food, the book involves very little Hollywood gossip Tucci does drop in jokes and asides about his famous friends and costars that... Read more

Raw Dog

The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

By: Jamie Loftus
Narrated by: Jamie Loftus
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

“Raw Dog by Jamie Loftus, (host of The Lolita Podcast and Ghost Church), covers all the basics you'd expect from a writer embarking on a road trip to taste test all the hottest pork tubes in America - a crumbling relationship due to a distaste for mustard, xenophobia and sexism in the competitive hot-dog eating circuit, and the horrible... Read more

Girly Drinks

A World History of Women and Alcohol

By: Mallory O'Meara
Narrated by: Mallory O'Meara
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

“What! A! Book! As an avid nonfiction reader I don't say this lightly: Girly Drinks might be one of the best written 'untold stories' I've ever come across. O'Meara covers several centuries and nearly every continent in this sweeping history. Her tone is playful without dismissing the importance of her record-correcting work. Girly Drinks updated... 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

No Meat Required

The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating

By: Alicia Kennedy
Narrated by: Stina Nielsen
Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

No Meat Required is a bestselling culinary and cultural history of plant-based eating in the United States that delves into the subcultures and politics that have defined alternative food—Diet for a Small Planet for a new generation

The vegan diet used to be associated only with eccentric hippies and tofu-loving activists who shop at co-ops and... Read more

Bourdain

The Definitive Oral Biography

By: Laurie Woolever
Narrated by: Laurie Woolever, Christopher Bourdain, José Andrés, Nigella Lawson, W. Kamau Bell & Full Cast
Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

An unprecedented behind-the-scenes view into the life of Anthony Bourdain from the people who knew him best.When Anthony Bourdain died in June 2018, fans around the globe came together to celebrate the life of an inimitable man who had dedicated his life to traveling nearly everywhere (and eating nearly everything), shedding light on the lives... Read more

Ultra-Processed People

Why We Can't Stop Eating Food That Isn't Food

By: Chris van Tulleken
Narrated by: Chris van Tulleken & Dr. Xand van Tulleken
Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

The Omnivore's Dilemma meets Fast Food Nation from a global perspective in this game-changing look at the science, economics, and history of ultra-processed food and the industry's effect on our health and planet.

It’s not you, it’s the food.

How much of our daily caloric intake comes from ingesting substances that, technically speaking, do not... Read more

Savor

A Chef's Hunger for More

By: Fatima Ali & Tarajia Morrell
Narrated by: Nikhaar Kishnani & Deepa Samuel
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

JAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER • A young chef whose dreams were cut short savors every last minute as she explores food and adventure, illness and mortality in Savor, an “inspiring” (The New York Times Book Review) memoir and family story that sweeps from Pakistan to Manhattan and beyond.

“Ali’s strength and passion for food and her culture shines... Read more

Fry Bread

A Native American Family Story

By: Kevin Noble Maillard
Narrated by: Kevin Noble Maillard
Length: 34 minutes

Fry bread is food. It is warm and delicious, piled high on a plate. Fry bread is time. It brings families together for meals and new memories. Fry bread is nation. It is shared by many, from coast to coast and beyond. Fry bread is us. It is a celebration of old and new, traditional and modern, similarity and difference. Told in lively and... Read more

Garlic and Sapphires

The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise

By: Ruth Reichl
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

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

In the Weeds

By: B.K. Borison
Narrated by: Pippa Jayne & Dane Anderson
Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

One incredible weekend in Maine, and Beckett Porter is officially a distracted man. He’s not unfamiliar with hot and heavy flings. He knows how it goes. But Evie wove some sort of magic over him during their tumble in the sheets. He can’t stop thinking about her laugh, her hand pressed flat against his chest, her smiling mouth at his neck, her... Read more

The Lazy Genius Kitchen

Have What You Need, Use What You Have, and Enjoy It Like Never Before

By: Kendra Adachi
Narrated by: Kendra Adachi
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lazy Genius Way comes a fresh perspective for getting the most out of your kitchen!

“An empowering, transformative, and slightly sassy guidebook.”—Jenna Fischer, actress, author, and producer/cohost of Office Ladies podcast 

You want your kitchen to be the heartbeat of the home, but you’re... Read more

Pappyland

A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last

By: Wright Thompson
Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

An instant New York Times bestseller

From the bestselling author of The Cost of These Dreams

The story of how Julian Van Winkle III, the caretaker of the most coveted cult Kentucky Bourbon whiskey in the world, fought to protect his family's heritage and preserve the taste of his forebears, in a world where authenticity, like his product, is in... Read more

This Is Vegan Propaganda

(And Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)

By: Ed Winters
Narrated by: Ed Winters
Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Brought to you by Penguin.

Every time we eat, we have the power to radically transform the world we live in.

Our choices can help alleviate the most pressing issues we face today: the climate crisis, infectious and chronic diseases, human exploitation and, of course, non-human exploitation. Undeniably, these issues can be uncomfortable to learn... Read more

The Fiber Fueled Cookbook

Inspiring Plant-Based Recipes to Turbocharge Your Health

By: Will Bulsiewicz, MD
Narrated by: Barrett Leddy & Will Bulsiewicz, MD
Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

New York Times bestselling author Dr. Will Bulsiewicz offers a groundbreaking cookbook packed with delicious plant-based recipes, as well as a targeted plan for overcoming food sensitivities.

Leading gastroenterologist Dr. Will Bulsiewicz, or “Dr. B,” introduced readers to the wonders of fiber with the New York Times bestseller Fiber Fueled—a... Read more

Lasagna Means I Love You

By: Kate O'Shaughnessy
Narrated by: Annie Q
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

What are the essential ingredients that make a family? Eleven-year-old Mo is making up her own recipe in this unforgettable story that's a little sweet, a little sour, and totally delicious.

Nan was all the family Mo ever needed. But suddenly she’s gone, and Mo finds herself in foster care after her uncle decides she’s not worth sticking around... Read more

Mediterranean Diet for Beginners

Weight Loss Without Dieting - The Complete Guide Solution With Diet Meal Plan and Cookbook With 50 Recipes

By: Rockridge Jacobs
Narrated by: Skyler Morgan
Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Who has time to cook gourmet meals that call for 2-3 hours of prep time in the kitchen?Who has time to research advanced culinary degree level cooking techniques?Who wants to waste time on a diet that is impossible to follow permanently?Who wants to follow recipes from authors who don't know the first thing about fat loss?The answer? NOBODY!This... Read more

Eat a Peach

A Memoir

By: David Chang & Gabe Ulla
Narrated by: David Chang
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

“Unapologetically honest and raw, "Eat a Peach" is David Chang's no holds barred account of his rise to fame in the culinary world. David writes candidly about his complicated upbringing, mental illness, crippling anxiety and self doubt, and major anger management issues as he dishes up subversive, accessible food to the masses.  I appreciated... Read more

Save Me the Plums

My Gourmet Memoir

By: Ruth Reichl
Narrated by: Ruth Reichl
Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

“Ruth Reichl's latest memoir is delectable! The audio was superb. For readers who enjoy behind the scenes, travel, and food. Loved it! Read more

The Omnivore's Dilemma

A Natural History of Four Meals

By: Michael Pollan
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 15 hours 53 minutes

One of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year

Winner of the James Beard Award

Author of #1 New York Times Bestsellers In Defense of Food and Food Rules

What should we have for dinner? Ten years ago, Michael Pollan confronted us with this seemingly simple question and, with The Omnivore’s Dilemma, his brilliant and eye-opening... Read more

Koshersoul

The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew

By: Michael W. Twitty
Narrated by: Michael W. Twitty
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

The James Beard award-winning author of the acclaimed The Cooking Gene explores the cultural crossroads of Jewish and African diaspora cuisine and issues of memory, identity, and food.In Koshersoul, Michael W. Twitty considers the marriage of two of the most distinctive culinary cultures in the world today: the foods and traditions of the... Read more

Fatty Fatty Boom Boom

A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family

By: Rabia Chaudry
Narrated by: Rabia Chaudry
Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

“A delicious and mouthwatering book about food and family, the complicated love for both, and how that shapes us into who we are . . . I absolutely loved it!”
—Valerie Bertinelli

From the bestselling author and host of the wildly popular Undisclosed podcast, a warm, intimate memoir about food, body image, and growing up in a loving but sometimes... Read more

The Christmas Crumb

By: Lou Treleaven
Narrated by: Lewis Arlt, Lauren Ezzo, David Bendena & York Whitaker
Length: 8 minutes

A family of giants drops a crumb of chocolate yule log?but one crumb doesn't matter, does it? Join Pip and his mother, the mice, and the ants as everyone benefits from the giant Christmas bonanza. The audience will learn along with each of the characters that what might be a small thing for you can turn out to be a very big thing for someone else. Read more

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 HeartburnLong before Padma Lakshmi ever stepped onto a television... 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

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat - Abridged

Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking

By: Samin Nosrat
Narrated by: Samin Nosrat
Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

*More than 1 million copies sold * New York Times bestseller * Winner of the James Beard Award and multiple IACP Cookbook Awards * Available as a Netflix series *

Transform how you prep, cook, and think about food with this visionary master class in cooking by Samin Nosrat that distills decades of professional experience into just four simple... 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

Your Table Is Ready

Tales of a New York City Maître D'

By: Michael Cecchi-Azzolina
Narrated by: Michael Cecchi-Azzolina
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

"Trained in acting and a lifer in the restaurant business, Michael Cecchi-Azzolina doles out opinions in the tone of an authentic New Yorker. He narrates with a good pace and rhythm. The inner workings of the restaurant world as revealed are exhilarating but often sordid and salacious....this is an entertaining and insightful audiobook."-... Read more

Finding Freedom

A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch

By: Erin French
Narrated by: Erin French
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

“A memoir that grabs you from the beginning and immediately has you rooting hard for a scrappy, young, genius chef-to-be as she overcomes some pretty serious challenges along the way to owning one of the most sought-out restaurants in New England. Read more

Cork Dork

A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste

By: Bianca Bosker
Narrated by: Bianca Bosker
Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' PICK

“Thrilling . . . [told] with gonzo élan . . . When the sommelier and blogger Madeline Puckette writes that this book is the Kitchen Confidential of the wine world, she’s not wrong, though Bill Buford’s Heat is probably a shade closer.” —Jennifer Senior, The New York... Read more

Dirt

Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking

By: Bill Buford
Narrated by: Bill Buford
Length: 16 hours 51 minutes

“You can almost taste the food in Bill Buford’s Dirt, an engrossing, beautifully written memoir about his life as a cook in France.” —The Wall Street Journal

What does it take to master French cooking? This is the question that drives Bill Buford to abandon his perfectly happy life in New York City and pack up and (with a wife and three-year-old... Read more

From the Desk of Zoe Washington

Zoe Washington

By: Janae Marks
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

“Zoe loves to bake. She wants to be a professional pastry chef when she grows up, and her mom landed her an internship at a local bakery this summer! But when she receives a letter from her birth father in prison on her 12th birthday, everything changes. Marcus sounds very nice in his letter, but he's in jail for murder. Zoe's not sure at first,... Read more

My First Popsicle

An Anthology of Food and Feelings

By: Zosia Mamet
Narrated by: Zosia Mamet, Sian Clifford, Kaley Cuoco, Ted Danson, Matt Flanders, Tony Hale, Katie Holmes, Hamish Linklater, Rosie Perez, Busy Philipps, Andrew Rannells, Gabourey Sidibe, Patti Smith & Full Cast
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

From a spectrum of talented authors, a collection of essays on food, and its entwinement with our emotions and our lives.

Of all the essentials for survival: oxygen, water, sleep, and food, only food is a vast treasure trove of memory and of sensory experience. Food is a portal to culture, to times past, to disgust, to comfort, to love: no matter... Read more

JELL-O Girls

A Family History

By: Allie Rowbottom
Narrated by: Allie Rowbottom
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

“Part memoir, part mystery, part fascinating history of America's favorite jiggly dessert, Jell-O Girls is a fascinating look at the life of several generations of women living off the Jell-O dollars. Author Allie Rowbottom weaves so many facets of this story together seamlessly. I couldn't wait to grab my earbuds each day and hear what happened... Read more

Barbarians at the Gate

The Fall of RJR Nabisco

By: Bryan Burrough & John Helyar
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
Length: 22 hours 18 minutes

#1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate is the classic account of the fall of RJR Nabisco at the hands of a buyout from investment firm KKR.A book that stormed both the bestseller list and the public imagination, a book that created a genre of its own, and a book that gets at the... Read more

Not That Fancy

Simple Lessons on Living, Loving, Eating, and Dusting Off Your Boots

By: Reba McEntire
Narrated by: Reba McEntire
Length: TBA

The best things in life are really not that fancy. This audiobook featuring all-things-Reba invites you to get back to the basics of life: fun, food, friends, and family. In her first book in over two decades, actress and country music legend Reba McEntire takes you behind the scenes and shares the stories, recipes, and Oklahoma-style truths... Read more

Fieldwork

A Forager's Memoir

By: Iliana Regan
Narrated by: Iliana Regan
Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Not long after Iliana Regan’s celebrated debut, Burn the Place, became the first food-related title in four decades to become a National Book Award nominee in 2019, her career as a Michelin star–winning chef took a sharp turn north.Long based in Chicago, Iliana and her new wife, Anna, decided to create a culinary destination, the Milkweed Inn,... Read more

Cook, Eat, Repeat

Ingredients, Recipes, and Stories

By: Nigella Lawson
Narrated by: Nigella Lawson
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

“Food, for me, is a constant pleasure: I like to think greedily about it, reflect deeply on it, learn from it; it provides comfort, inspiration, meaning, and beauty…More than just a mantra, ‘cook, eat, repeat’ is the story of my life.” 

Cook, Eat, Repeat is a delicious and delightful combination of recipes intertwined with narrative essays about... Read more

Buttermilk Graffiti

A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine

By: Edward Lee
Narrated by: David Shih
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

American food is the story of mash-ups. Immigrants arrive, cultures collide, and out of the push-pull come exciting new dishes and flavors. But for Edward Lee, who, like Anthony Bourdain or Gabrielle Hamilton, is as much a writer as he is a chef, that first surprising bite is just the beginning. What about the people behind the food? What about... Read more

Audacity of Hops

The History of America's Craft Beer Revolution

By: Tom Acitelli
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Length: 19 hours 45 minutes

Discover the underdog story of how America came to dominate beer stylistically in the second edition of Tom Acitelli's The Audacity of Hops: The History of America's Craft Beer Revolution, the most comprehensive history yet of American craft beer.

Based on extensive archival research as well as interviews with the movement's key players going... Read more

Masala Lab

The Science of Indian Cooking

By: Krish Ashok
Narrated by: Ashish Bhandari
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Ever wondered why your grandmother threw a teabag into the pressure cooker while boiling chickpeas, or why she measured using the knuckle of her index finger? Why does a counter-intuitive pinch of salt make your kheer more intensely flavourful? What is the Maillard reaction and what does it have to do with fenugreek? What does your... Read more

Coming to My Senses

The Making of a Counterculture Cook

By: Alice Waters
Narrated by: Alice Waters
Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

“No one has transformed the way Americans think about food—its place in our individual and collective lives, and as a conveyer of our values—than Alice Waters. The founder of iconic Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, California, and the driving force behind the Edible Schoolyard program that has introduced tens of thousands of schoolchildren... Read more

Amelia Bedelia Takes the Cake

By: Herman Parish
Narrated by: Christine Ebersole
Length: 7 minutes

Learn to read with young Amelia Bedelia! Amelia Bedelia has been loved by readers for more than fifty years, and it turns out that her childhood is full of silly mix-ups, too! The star of the best-selling picture book series now has her own Level 1 I Can Read series that will keep newly independent readers laughing, reading, and expanding their... Read more

Ways of Eating

Exploring Food through History and Culture

By: Merry White & Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft
Narrated by: Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft
Length: TBA

What we learn when an anthropologist and a historian talk about food.

From the origins of agriculture to contemporary debates over culinary authenticity, Ways of Eating introduces listeners to world food history and food anthropology. Through engaging stories and historical deep dives, Benjamin A. Wurgaft and Merry I. White offer new ways to... Read more

A Bone to Pick

The good and bad news about food, with wisdom and advice on diets, food safety, GMOs, farming, and more

By: Mark Bittman
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Since his New York Times op-ed column debuted in 2011, Mark Bittman has emerged as one of our most impassioned and opinionated observers of the food landscape. The Times’ only dedicated opinion columnist covering the food beat, Bittman routinely makes readers think twice about how the food we eat is produced, distributed, and cooked, and shines... Read more

Eat Like a Fish

My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer

By: Bren Smith
Narrated by: Bren Smith
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Part memoir, part manifesto, in Eat Like a Fish Bren Smith—a former commercial fisherman turned restorative ocean farmer—shares a bold new vision for the future of food: seaweed.

Through tales that span from his childhood in Newfoundland to his early years on the high seas aboard commercial fishing trawlers, from pioneering new forms of ocean... Read more

The Galveston Diet

The Doctor-Developed, Patient-Proven Plan to Burn Fat and Tame Your Hormonal Symptoms

By: Mary Claire Haver, MD
Narrated by: Mary Claire Haver, MD
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

A patient-proven eating and lifestyle program to balance nutrition and sustain weight loss—including more than 40 delicious recipes and 6 weeks of meal plans—tailored to women in midlife.

“I haven’t changed my diet or exercise habits and yet the scale keeps moving in the wrong direction. What’s going on?!”

Time and again, this is the question Dr.... Read more

Soul Food Sunday

By: Winsome Bingham
Narrated by: Winsome Bingham & Sullivan Jones
Length: 17 minutes

On Sundays, everyone gathers at Granny’s for Soul Food. But today, I don’t go to the backyard or the great room. I follow Granny instead. “You’re a big boy now,” Granny says. “Time for you to learn.” At Granny’s, Sunday isn’t Sunday without a big family gathering over a lovingly prepared meal. Old enough now, our narrator is finally invited to... Read more

National Dish

Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home

By: Anya von Bremzen
Narrated by: Kathleen Gati
Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

In this engrossing and timely journey to the crossroads of food and identity award-winning writer Anya von Bremzen explores six of the world’s most fascinating and iconic culinary cultures—France, Italy, Japan, Spain, Mexico, and Turkey—brilliantly weaving cuisine, history, and politics into a work of scintillating connoisseurship and charm

We... Read more