Books About Food

Wild Chocolate

Across the Americas in Search of Cacao's Soul

By: Rowan Jacobsen
Narrated by: Sam Rushton
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

“Put down the Hershey's bar and buckle up for an adventure in the jungle. You will never appreciate chocolate more and you might also reconsider your next chocolate delight. Thoroughly researched with a human connection, this is a great story for any food lover or history buff. Read more

Coffeeland

One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug

By: Augustine Sedgewick
Narrated by: Jason Culp
Length: 14 hours 55 minutes

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

“Extremely wide-ranging and well researched . . . In a tradition of protest literature rooted more in William Blake than in Marx.” —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker
 
The epic story of how coffee connected and divided the modern world
 
Coffee is an indispensable part of daily life for billions of people... Read more

Barons

Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry

By: Austin Frerick
Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Barons is the story of seven corporate titans, their rise to power, and the consequences for everyone else. Take Mike McCloskey, chairman of Fair Oaks Farms. In a few short decades, he went from managing a modest dairy herd to running the Disneyland of agriculture. Mike benefited from deregulation of the American food industry, a phenomenon that... 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

“Girly Drinks is a fun, feminist, and information account chronicling the immense impact women have had on society through making and consuming alcohol. From beer and ale, to whisky, to sake, to sorghum, this is an inclusive and culturally aware history. Full to the brim with riveting stories, you’ll savor every line. Grab a beverage and tuck in! Read more

The Core of an Onion

Peeling the Rarest Common Food—Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes

By: Mark Kurlansky
Narrated by: Mark Kurlansky
Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Bloomsbury presents The Core of an Onion written and read by Mark Kurlansky.

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cod and Salt, a delectable look at the cultural, historical, and gastronomical layers of one of the world’s most beloved culinary staples—featuring recipes from around the world.

As Julia Child once said, “It is hard to... Read more

Kings of Their Own Ocean

Tuna, Obsession, and the Future of Our Seas

By: Karen Pinchin
Narrated by: Karen Pinchin
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

**THE INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER**

Winner of the Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award, the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, the Axiom Book Awards Gold Medal for Business History, and the 2024 Taste Canada Culinary Narrative Award

Shortlisted for the 2024 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize and the Taste Canada Award for Culinary... Read more

Salmon Wars

The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish

By: Catherine Collins & Douglas Frantz
Narrated by: Amy McFadden
Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

"After listening to Amy McFadden's narration of this exposé, salmon croquettes may never taste the same. McFadden uses a podcaster- style of storytelling, friendly and righteous, to animate the history of farmed salmon's calculated rise to prominence."- AudioFile

A Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent and a former private investigator dive deep... Read more

This Is Your Mind on Plants

By: Michael Pollan
Narrated by: Michael Pollan
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

“This book helps illustrate ways in which the proper uses of plants that are designed to help us, are not recognized properly in our society. Read more

The French Ingredient

Making a Life in Paris One Lesson at a Time; A Memoir

By: Jane Bertch
Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

The inspiring and delicious memoir of an American woman who had the gall to open a cooking school in Paris—a true story of triumphing over French naysayers and falling in love with a city along the way

“An engaging, multilayered story of a woman navigating innumerable cultural differences to build a life in Paris and create her dream: to... Read more

Taste Makers

Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America

By: Mayukh Sen
Narrated by: Tovah Ott
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Who’s really behind America’s appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from an electric new voice in food writing honors seven extraordinary women, all immigrants, who left an indelible mark on the way Americans eat today. Taste Makers stretches from World War II to the present, with absorbing and deeply researched... Read more

If You Can't Take the Heat

Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

By: Geraldine DeRuiter
Narrated by: Geraldine DeRuiter
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the James Beard Award–winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays on how food and cooking stoke the flames of her feminism.

“With charm and humor, Geraldine DeRuiter welcomes us into her personal history and thus reconnects us with ourselves.”—Mikki Kendall, New York Times bestselling author... Read more

Setting the Table - Abridged

By: Danny Meyer
Narrated by: Danny Meyer
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

The bestselling business book from award-winning restauranteur Danny Meyer, of Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, and Shake ShackSeventy-five percent of all new restaurant ventures fail, and of those that do stick around, only a few become icons. Danny Meyer started Union Square Cafe when he was 27, with a good idea and hopeful investors. He is... Read more

The Upstairs Delicatessen

On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

By: Dwight Garner
Narrated by: Christopher P. Brown
Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Reading and eating, like Krazy and Ignatz, Sturm und Drang, prosciutto and melon, Simon and Schuster, and radishes and butter, have always, for me, simply gone together. The book is a product of these combined gluttonies.



Dwight Garner, the beloved New York Times critic and the author of Garner's Quotations, serves up the intertwined pleasures of... 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

The Botany of Desire

A Plant's-Eye View of the World

By: Michael Pollan
Narrated by: Michael Pollan
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of Cooked and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in America

In 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam. Three and a half centuries later, Amsterdam is once again the mecca for... Read more

Truffle Hound

On the Trail of the World’s Most Seductive Scent, with Dreamers, Schemers, and Some Extraordinary Dogs

By: Rowan Jacobsen
Narrated by: Sam Rushton
Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Bloomsbury presents Truffle Hound by Rowan Jacobsen, read by Sam Rushton.

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year

A captivating exploration into the secretive and sensuous world of truffles, the elusive food that has captured hearts, imaginations, and palates worldwide.

The scent of one freshly unearthed white truffle in Barolo was all it took to... Read more