Cooking audiobooks

Somebody Feed Phil the Book

By: Phil Rosenthal

Narrated by: Phil Rosenthal

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“Wherever I travel, be it a different state, country, or continent, I always call Phil when I need to know where and what to eat. He’s the food guru of the world.” —Ray Romano

The ultimate collection of must-have recipes, stories, and behind-the-scenes photos from the beloved Netflix show Somebody Feed Phil.

Phil... Read more

From the Desk of Zoe Washington

By: Janae Marks

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 Kids Indie Next List * Parents Magazine Best Book of the Year * Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Book of the Year * SLJ Best Book of the Year * Kirkus Best Book of the Year * Junior Library Guild Selection * Edgar Award Nominee * Four Starred Reviews * Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year * An Indie Bestseller *From debut... Read more

JELL-O Girls

By: Allie Rowbottom

Narrated by: Allie Rowbottom

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A "gorgeous" (New York Times) memoir that braids the evolution of one of America's most iconic branding campaigns with the stirring tales of the women who lived behind its facade - told by the inheritor of their stories.

In 1899, Allie Rowbottom's great-great-great-uncle bought the patent to Jell-O from its inventor for $450. The sale would turn... Read more

Endangered Eating

By: Sarah Lohman

Narrated by: Sarah Lohman

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Apples, a common New England crop, have been called the United States' most endangered food. The iconic Texas Longhorn cattle is categorized at critical risk for extinction. Unique date palms, found nowhere else on the planet, grow in California’s Coachella Valley, but the family farms that caretake them are shutting down. Apples, cattle,... Read more

Your Table Is Ready

By: Michael Cecchi-Azzolina

Narrated by: Michael Cecchi-Azzolina

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

"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

My First Popsicle

By: Zosia Mamet

Narrated by: Zosia Mamet, Sian Clifford, Kaley Cuoco, Ted Da...

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

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

An Onion in My Pocket

By: Deborah Madison

Narrated by: Deborah Madison

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone ("The Queen of Greens," The Washington Post)—a warm, bracingly honest memoir that also gives us an insider's look at the vegetarian movement.

Madison’s “insightful memoir” (The Wall Street Journal) is “a true delight to read as she uncovers her love for all real foods, peeling off layer by layer... Read more

Notes from a Young Black Chef

By: Kwame Onwuachi & Joshua David Stein

Narrated by: Kwame Onwuachi

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

“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

The Best Cook in the World

By: Rick Bragg

Narrated by: Rick Bragg

Length: 19 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From the beloved, best-selling author of All Over but the Shoutin', a delectable, rollicking food memoir, cookbook, and loving tribute to a region, a vanishing history, a family, and, especially, to his mother.

Margaret Bragg does not own a single cookbook. She measures in "dabs" and "smidgens" and "tads" and "you know, hon, just some." She... Read more

Coming to My Senses

By: Alice Waters

Narrated by: Alice Waters

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed memoir from cultural icon and culinary standard bearer Alice Waters recalls the circuitous road and tumultuous times leading to the opening of what is arguably America's most influential restaurant.
 
When Alice Waters opened the doors of her "little French restaurant" in Berkeley,... Read more

Mincemeat

By: Leonardo Lucarelli

Narrated by: Will Damron

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

With the wit and pace of Anthony Bourdain, Italian chef and anthropologist Leonardo Lucarelli sketches the exhilarating life behind the closed doors of restaurants, and the unlikely work ethics of the kitchen.
 
In Italy, five-star restaurants and celebrity chefs may seem, on the surface, a part of the landscape. In reality, the restaurant... Read more

A Bold Return to Giving a Damn

By: Will Harris

Narrated by: Will Harris

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

"If I could have one wish it is that every eater in America would read this book." —Ruth Reichl

From a pioneer of the regenerative agriculture movement, a memoir-meets-manifesto on betting the farm on a better future for our food, animals, land, local communities, and our climate

Raised as a fourth-generation farmer, when Will Harris inherited... Read more

Savor

By: Fatima Ali & Tarajia Morrell

Narrated by: Nikhaar Kishnani & Deepa Samuel

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Honestly Elliott

By: Gillian McDunn

Narrated by: Matthew Bridges

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Honestly Elliott by Gillian McDunn, read by Matthew Bridges.

Schneider Family Book Award: Best Middle Grade Honor Book!

Highly-acclaimed author of Caterpillar Summer, Gillian McDunn explores boyhood in a funny, big-hearted story about a kid trying to find the best way to be his best self.

Elliott isn't sure where he fits in.... Read more

The Secret Life of Groceries

By: Benjamin Lorr

Narrated by: Benjamin Lorr

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Fast Food Nation and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, an extraordinary investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery storeThe American supermarket is an everyday miracle. But what does it take to run one? What are the inner workings of product delivery and distribution? Who sets the price? And who suffers for... Read more

Dirt

By: Bill Buford

Narrated by: Bill Buford

Length: 16 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“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

Eat Like a Fish

By: Bren Smith

Narrated by: Bren Smith

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Tree of Dreams

By: Laura Resau

Narrated by: Rebecca Soler & Janina Edwards

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A beating heart. A talking tree. The rain forest. Love. Mysticism. Harvest. And above all, chocolate.Dear Coco and Leo,I miss you! We all miss you! The whole forest misses you! I hear their thanks and wishes in my dreams. I hope you do, too. Prepare for a journey into a world filled with what so many crave -- the sweet savoring of a chocolate... Read more

Quench Your Own Thirst

By: Jim Koch

Narrated by: Jim Koch

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER and named a 2016 Best Book of the Year by Inc., Business Insider, Forbes, and Amazon

Founder of The Boston Beer Company, brewer of Samuel Adams Boston Lager, and a key catalyst of the American craft beer revolution, Jim Koch offers his unique perspective when it comes to business, beer, and turning your passion into a... Read more

Yes, Chef

By: Marcus Samuelsson

Narrated by: Marcus Samuelsson

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

JAMES BEARD AWARD NOMINEE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY VOGUE • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“One of the great culinary stories of our time.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times
 
It begins with a simple ritual: Every Saturday afternoon, a boy who loves to cook walks to his grandmother’s house and helps her prepare a roast chicken for... Read more

Noodles on a Bicycle

By: Kyo Maclear

Narrated by: Sarah Skaer

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A vibrant historical children's book about Tokyo's bicycle food deliverers, or demae, who balanced towering trays of steaming hot noodles on their shoulders while navigating crowded city streets. When the deliverymen set off in the morning, the children wait for the flicker of pedal and wheel. It's the demae—delivery men—setting off to deliver... Read more

Cupcakes are Forever

By: Carrie Berk & Sheryl Berk

Narrated by: Carrie Berk

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Keep calm and bake on …
Kylie and her cupcaking friends are finally graduating from Blakely Elementary!
The other girls of Peace, Love, and Cupcakes are feeling sentimental, but Kylie’s all
about looking toward the future. After all, PLC will continue on in middle school.
But when Principal Fontina asks Kylie to create a PLC junior club to live... Read more

Vote for Cupcakes!

By: Carrie Berk & Sheryl Berk

Narrated by: Carrie Berk

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Cupcakes for the win!When Delaney discovers there’s been a cut to the art budget, she decides it’s time to make a change! The race for class president is quickly approaching, and Delaney’s going to run. Her besties in Peace, Love, and Cupcakes are ready to help in any way they can. But when Delaney’s demands start infringing on PLC’s ability to... Read more

Hugs and Sprinkles

By: Carrie Berk & Sheryl Berk

Narrated by: Carrie Berk

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: No

PLC is about to find out that secrets and crushes are a recipe for disaster …The fifth graders at Blakely Elementary are having their very first dance! The girls of Peace, Love, and Cupcakes are all thrilled … except for Kylie, who confides in Lexi that she wishes she had a special someone to go with. Before long, notes and gifts show up in... Read more