Celebrating Women's Culinary Legacy: Spice Up Women's History Month with Stories from the Kitchen!

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

Burn the Place

A Memoir

By: Iliana Regan
Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

A singular, powerfully expressive debut memoir that traces one chef’s struggle to find her place and what happens once she doesBurn the Place is a galvanizing culinary memoir that chronicles Iliana Regan’s journey from foraging on the family farm to opening her Michelin-starred restaurant, Elizabeth. Her story is alive with startling imagery,... 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

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

Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business)

Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom

A Feeding the Soul Book

By: Tabitha Brown
Narrated by: Tabitha Brown
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

 You are seen, you are loved, and you are heard!Before Tabitha Brown was one of the most popular personalities in the world, sharing her delicious vegan home cooking and compassionate wisdom with millions of followers across social media, she was an aspiring actress who in 2016 began struggling with undiagnosed chronic autoimmune pain. Her... 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

Mango and Peppercorns

A Memoir of Food, an Unlikely Family, and the American Dream

By: Tung Nguyen, Katherine Manning & Lyn Nguyen
Narrated by: Quyen Ngo, Cindy Kay & VyVy Nguyen
Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

A powerful memoir of resilience, friendship, family, and food from the acclaimed chefs behind the award-winning Hy Vong Vietnamese restaurant in Miami.

Through powerful narrative, archival imagery, and 20 Vietnamese recipes that mirror their story, Mango & Peppercorns is a unique contribution to culinary literature.

In 1975, after narrowly... 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

The Editor

How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America

By: Sara B. Franklin
Narrated by: Eunice Wong
Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
An Economist Best Book of 2024 • A Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2024

Legendary editor Judith Jones, the woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century—including Julia Child, Anne Frank, Edna Lewis, John Updike, and Sylvia Plath—finally gets her due in this “surprising, granular, luminous, and... Read more

My Life in France - Abridged

By: Julia Child & Alex Prud'homme
Narrated by: Flo Salant Greenberg
Length: 5 hours 1 minute

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

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

Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking

A Memoir of Food and Longing

By: Anya von Bremzen
Narrated by: Kathleen Gati
Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

A James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generations  
 
     Born in 1963, in an era of bread shortages, Anya grew up in a communal Moscow apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen. She sang odes to Lenin,... 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

Give a Girl a Knife

A Memoir

By: Amy Thielen
Narrated by: Amy Thielen
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

A beautifully written food memoir chronicling one woman’s journey from her rural Midwestern hometown to the intoxicating world of New York City fine dining—and back again—in search of her culinary roots
 
Before Amy Thielen frantically plated rings of truffled potatoes in some of New York City’s finest kitchens—for chefs David Bouley, Daniel... Read more

Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger

A Memoir

By: Lisa Donovan
Narrated by: Lisa Donovan
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Named a Favorite Book for Southerners in 2020 by Garden & Gun 

"Donovan is such a vivid writer—smart, raunchy, vulnerable and funny— that if her vaunted caramel cakes and sugar pies are half as good as her prose, well, I'd be open to even giving that signature buttermilk whipped cream she tops her desserts with a try.”—Maureen... Read more

To Fall in Love, Drink This

A Wine Writer's Memoir

By: Alice Feiring
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Nominated for a James Beard Award

Named a Best Wine Book of 2022 by The New York Times, Forbes, and The Washington Post

From veteran wine writer and James Beard Award winner Alice Feiring, an insightful and entertaining memoir of wine, love, heartbreak, and the never-ending process of coming-of-age.

Alice Feiring is a special sort of wine... Read more

You Had Me at Pet-Nat

A Natural Wine-Soaked Memoir

By: Rachel Signer
Narrated by: Katherine Littrell
Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

From the publisher of Pipette Magazine, discover a natural wine-soaked memoir about finding your passion—and falling in love.

It was Rachel Signer's dream to be that girl: the one smoking hand-rolled cigarettes out the windows of her 19th-century Parisian studio apartment, wearing second-hand Isabel Marant jeans and sipping a glass of Beaujolais... Read more

Rebel Chef

In Search of What Matters

By: Dominique Crenn & Emma Brockes
Narrated by: Hope Newhouse
Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

The inspiring and deeply personal memoir from highly acclaimed chef Dominique Crenn

By the time Dominique Crenn decided to become a chef, at the age of twenty-one, she knew it was a near impossible dream in France where almost all restaurant kitchens were run by men. So, she left her home and everything she knew to move to San Francisco, where... 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

Wine Girl

The Trials and Triumphs of America’s Youngest Sommelier

By: Victoria James
Narrated by: Victoria James
Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

An affecting memoir from the country’s youngest sommelier, tracing her path through the glamorous but famously toxic restaurant world

At just twenty-one, the age when most people are starting to drink (well, legally at least), Victoria James became the country’s youngest sommelier at a Michelin-starred restaurant. Even as Victoria was selling... Read more