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Food Writing Audiobooks

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    The Omnivore's Dilemma

    A Natural History of Four Meals

    by Michael Pollan ...
    Narrated by Scott Brick ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 54 min

    One of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year**Winner of the James Beard AwardAuthor 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 exploration of our food choices, demonstrated that ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Cooked

    A Natural History of Transformation

    by Michael Pollan ...
    Narrated by Michael Pollan ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 25 min

    **Michael Pollan, the bestselling author of The Omnivore's Dilemma, Food Rules, and How to Change Your Mind, explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen in Cooked.Cooked is now a Netflix docuseries based on the book that focuses on the four kinds of "transformations" that occur in cooking. Directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney and starring Michael Pollan, Cooked teases ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Cook, Eat, Repeat

    Ingredients, recipes and stories.

    by Nigella Lawson ...
    Narrated by Nigella Lawson ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 38 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.'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 food, all in Nigella's ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Imbibe! Updated and Revised Edition

    From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash, a Salute in Stories and Drinks to "Professor" Jerry Thomas, Pioneer of the American Bar

    by David Wondrich ...
    Narrated by David Colacci ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 31 min

    Cocktail writer and historian David Wondrich presents the colorful, little-known history of classic American drinks-and the ultimate mixologist's guide-in this engaging homage to Jerry Thomas, father of the American bar. The first edition, published in 2007, won a James Beard Award. Now updated with newly discovered recipes and historical information, this updated edition includes the origins of ... Read more

    $32.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Sweet Life in Paris

    Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious---and Perplexing---City

    by David Lebovitz ...
    Narrated by David Drummond ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 12 min

    Like so many others, David Lebovitz dreamed about living in Paris ever since he first visited the city in the 1980s. Finally, after a nearly two-decade career as a pastry chef and cookbook author, he moved to Paris to start a new life. Having crammed all his worldly belongings into three suitcases, he arrived, hopes high, at his new apartment in the lively Bastille neighborhood.But he soon ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Godforsaken Grapes

    A Slightly Tipsy Journey through the World of Strange, Obscure, and Underappreciated Wine

    by Jason Wilson ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Horvath ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 30 min

    There are nearly 1,400 known varieties of wine grapes in the world—from altesse to zierfandler—but 80 percent of the wine we drink is made from only 20 grapes. In Godforsaken Grapes, Jason Wilson looks at how that came to be and embarks on a journey to discover what we miss.Stemming from his own growing obsession, Wilson moves far beyond the “noble grapes,” hunting down obscure and ... Read more

    $38.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A Really Big Lunch

    by Jim Harrison ...
    Narrated by Joe Barrett ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 47 min

    Jim Harrison’s legendary gourmandise is on full display in A Really Big Lunch. From the titular New Yorker piece about a French lunch that went to thirty-seven courses to pieces from Brick, Playboy, Kermit Lynch’s newsletter, and others, from the relationship between hunter and prey to the obscure language of wine reviews, A Really Big Lunch is shot through with Harrison’s pointed aperçus and keen ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Red Sauce Brown Sauce: A British Breakfast Odyssey

    by Felicity Cloake ...
    Narrated by Felicity Cloake ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 53 min

    The charming and joyful follow-up book from ‘the nation’s taster in chief,’ Felicity Cloake.If there’s one thing that truly unites Britain, from Aberdeen to Aberystwyth, St Ives to St Pancras, it’s an obsession with breakfast.We all have an opinion on the merits of brown sauce versus ketchup on our morning bacon sarnie. In this eagerly awaited follow-up to One More Croissant for the Road, the ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Taste of Conquest

    The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice

    by Michael Krondl ...
    Narrated by Todd McLaren ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 35 min

    In this engaging, anecdotal history of food, world conquest, and desire, a chef-turned-journalist tells the story of three legendary cities-Venice, Lisbon, and Amsterdam-that transformed the globe in the quest for spice. Written in a colorful style that will appeal to fans of Mark Kurlansky and Michael Pollan, this ambitious yet accessible book travels effortlessly from the Crusades to the present ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Joy of Pizza

    Everything You Need to Know

    by Dan Richer ...
    Narrated by Will Collyer ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 7 min

    Learn to make artisan pizza the American way in this ultimate guide to the perfect pie from the creator of "the best pizza in New York" (New York Times).Pizza is simple: dough, sauce, cheese, toppings. But inside these ordinary ingredients lies a world of extraordinary possibility. Dan Richer has devoted his life to discovering the holy grail of pizza: the secret to making a truly transcendent ... Read more

    $37.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Lost Feast

    Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food

    by Lenore Newman ...
    Narrated by Tanya Eby ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 8 min

    A rollicking exploration of the history and future of our favorite foods. When we humans love foods, we love them a lot. In fact, we have often eaten them into extinction, whether it is the megafauna of the Paleolithic world or the passenger pigeon of the last century. In Lost Feast, food expert Lenore Newman sets out to look at the history of the foods we have loved to death and what that means ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Ancient Brews

    Rediscovered and Re-created

    by Patrick E. McGovern ...
    Narrated by Tom Perkins ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 7 min

    Patrick E. McGovern takes us on a fascinating journey through time to the dawn of brewing when our ancestors might well have made a Palaeo-Brew of wild fruits, honey, cereals, and botanicals. Early beverage-makers must have marveled at the magical process of fermentation. Their amazement grew as they drank the mind-altering drinks, which were to become the medicines, religious symbols, and social ... Read more

    $30.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    My Life in France

    by Julia Child ...
    Narrated by Kimberly Farr ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 19 min

    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 didn't speak a word of French and knew nothing about the ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    A History of the World in 6 Glasses

    by Tom Standage ...
    Narrated by Sean Runnette ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 34 min

    Throughout human history, certain drinks have done much more than just quench thirst. As Tom Standage relates with authority and charm, six of them have had a surprisingly pervasive influence on the course of history, becoming the defining drink during a pivotal historical period. A History of the World in 6 Glasses tells the story of humanity from the Stone Age to the twenty-first century through ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Burn the Place

    A Memoir

    by Iliana Regan ...
    Narrated by Eileen Stevens ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 23 min

    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, raw like that first bite of wild onion, and told with ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Language Food

    A Linguist Reads the Menu

    by Dan Jurafsky ...
    Narrated by Steven Menasche ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 16 min

    Stanford University linguist and MacArthur Fellow Dan Jurafsky dives into the hidden history of food. Why do we eat toast for breakfast, and then toast to good health at dinner? What does the turkey we eat on Thanksgiving have to do with the country on the eastern Mediterranean? Can you figure out how much your dinner will cost by counting the words on the menu? In The Language of Food, Stanford ... Read more

    $41.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Traveling with Sugar

    Chronicles of a Global Epidemic

    by Amy Moran-Thomas ...
    Narrated by Sands Xe ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 43 min

    Traveling with Sugar reframes the rising diabetes epidemic as part of a five-hundred-year-old global history of sweetness and power. Amid eerie injuries, changing bodies, amputated limbs, and untimely deaths, many people across the Caribbean and Central America simply call the affliction "sugar"-or, as some say in Belize, "traveling with sugar." A decade in the making, this book unfolds as a ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Search for God and Guinness

    A Biography of the Beer that Changed the World

    by Stephen Mansfield ...
    Narrated by David Colacci ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 37 min

    The history of Guinness, one of the world's most famous brands, reveals the noble heights and generosity of a great family and an innovative business. It began in Ireland in the mid 1700s. The water in Ireland, indeed throughout Europe, was famously undrinkable, and the gin and whiskey that took its place devastated civil society. It was a disease-ridden, starvation-plagued, alcoholic age, and ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Bake Sales Are My B*tch

    Win the Food Allergy Wars with 60+ Recipes to Keep Kids Safe and Parents Sane

    by April Peveteaux ...
    Narrated by Amy McFadden ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 54 min

    Living the food allergy life and having a kid who can't have dairy, tree nuts, peanuts, or soy is not easy. And neither is worrying about accommodating all the food requirements at a play date. From avoiding major food allergens and respecting food preferences like vegetarian or vegan to being aware of religious practices like keeping kosher, making a simple snack resembles navigating a minefield. ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Andrew Zimmern visits Huatulco

    Chapter 6 from THE BIZARRE TRUTH

    by Andrew Zimmern ...
    Narrated by Andrew Zimmern ...

    Unabridged

    21 min

    Andrew Zimmern, the host of The Travel Channel’s hit series Bizarre Foods, has an extraordinarily well-earned reputation for traveling far and wide to seek out and sample anything and everything that’s consumed as food globally, from cow vein stew in Bolivia and giant flying ants in Uganda to raw camel kidneys in Ethiopia, putrefied shark in blood pudding in Iceland and Wolfgang Puck's Hunan style ... Read more

    $2.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Whiskey Business

    How Small-Batch Distillers Are Transforming American Spirits

    by Tom Acitelli ...
    Narrated by Barry Abrams ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 32 min

    Discover the underdog story of the improbable rise of small-batch distilling in America. This bracingly written, fast-paced work traces the relationship of Americans to spirits such as bourbon, scotch, vodka, gin, and rum. And it presents the full story of a plucky band of entrepreneurs who disrupted the nation's conception of how those libations could appear and taste-and how much they could cost ... Read more

    $30.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Fork Fight!

    Whisks, Risks, and Conflicts Behind the Restaurant Curtain

    by Mark H. Brezinski, Mark Stuertz ...
    Narrated by Mark H. Brezinski ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 30 min

    The most compelling, insightful, and white-knuckled journey behind the restaurant curtain since Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential. Mark H. Brezinski is a forty-five-year veteran of the dynamic restaurant industry. A graduate of the famed School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University, Mark went on to create or co-create multiple nationally acclaimed restaurant companies. His ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    My Life in France

    by Julia Child, Alex Prud'homme ...
    Narrated by Flo Salant Greenberg ...

    Abridged

    5 hours 2 min

    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 didn't speak a word of French and knew nothing about the ... Read more

    $20.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Кулинарная книга моей бабушки

    by Оксана Путан, Оксана Путан ...
    Narrated by Анна Бойченко ...
    series Кулинарная школа Оксаны Путан

    Unabridged

    5 hours 38 min

    Оксана Путан — повар, кулинарный блогер и автор многих кулинарных бестселлеров, по рецептам которой готовят легко и просто тысячи людей. Ее рецепты уникальны, никто не объясняет процесс готовки толковее и понятнее. Эту книгу Оксана написала персонально для своей внучки, и в ней все самое важное, что нужно знать о приготовлении еды в целом и главных блюд русской кухни в частности. С этой книгой вы ... Read more

    $4.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial