Audiobooks to Listen to While You Cook
Get out those pots and pans, sharpen your knives, and turn the volume up on your speakers, we have the perfect list of audiobooks to listen to while you cook. These food memoirs and chef stories will thrill, entertain, and inspire you to make something delicious in your own kitchen.
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Add to BookshelfKitchen Confidential
by Anthony Bourdain
Read by Anthony Bourdain
From his first oyster in Gironda to the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop Rockefeller Center, from the restaurants of Tokyo to the drug dealers of the East Village, from the mobsters to the rats, Chef Anthony Bourdain’s brilliantly written and wonderfully read, wild-but-true tales make the belly ache with laughter. Here is a deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet that lays out his twenty-five years of sex, drugs, and haute cuisine.
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Food: A Love Story
by Jim Gaffigan
Read by Jim Gaffigan
Bacon. McDonald’s. Cinnabon. Hot Pockets. Kale. Stand-up comedian and author Jim Gaffigan has made his career rhapsodizing over the most treasured dishes of the American diet and now he gives readers his thoughts on all things culinary(ish). Here, Gaffigan reveals his most intimate food memories, opinions, and fantasies that will keep you laughing all the way to the refrigerator.
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Eat a Peach
by David Chang and Gabe Ulla
Read by David Chang
From the chef behind Momofuku and star of Netflix’s Ugly Delicious, comes an intimate account of the making of a chef, the story of the modern restaurant world that he helped shape, and how he discovered that success can be much harder to understand than failure.
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Notes from a Young Black Chef
by Kwame Onwuachi and Joshua David Stein
Read by Kwame Onwuachi
In this inspiring memoir about the intersection of race, fame, and food, Chef Kwame Onwuachi shares the remarkable story of his culinary coming-of-age. A powerful, heartfelt, and shockingly honest story of chasing your dreams, even when they don’t turn out as you expected. Notes from a Young Black Chef is one man’s pursuit of his passions, despite the odds.
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Food-Related Stories
by Gaby Melian
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“Food rescued me so many other times–not only because I sold food to survive. I cook to entertain; I cook to be liked; I cook to be loved.” In this book, chef and activist Gaby Melian shares her personal journey with food–from growing up in Argentina to her time as a Jersey City street vendor and later, as Bon Appetit’s test kitchen manager. Powerful and full of heart, here, Melian explores how we can develop a relationship with food that’s healthy, sustainable, and thoughtful.
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Dessert Can Save the World
by Christina Tosi
Read by Christina Tosi
Dessert connects us heart-to-heart like almost nothing else. It brings us together in good times and bad, celebration and solace. It marks big and small milestones and creates memories of comfort and joy. And Christina Tosi, the founder and CEO of Milk Bar, believes it can save the world. Studded with personal and unorthodox recipes, Dessert Can Save the World reveals the secret ingredients for transforming our outlooks, our relationships, our work, and our entire collective existence into something boldly optimistic and stubbornly joyful.
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My First Popsicle
by Zosia Mamet
Read 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 and Full Cast
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 one’s feelings about a particular dish, they are hardly ever neutral. In My First Popsicle, Zosia Mamet has curated some of the most prominent voices in art and culture to tackle the topic of food in all its elegance, its profundity, and its incidental charm.
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Just Try One Bite
by Adam Mansbach and Camila Alves McConaughey
Read by Vivien Mansbach, Livingston Alves McConaughey and Vida Alves McConaughey
From the bestselling author of Go the F*** to Sleep and healthy eating advocate Camila Alves McConaughey comes a whimsical role reversal in which picky eater parents are confronted by their three kids, with hilarious results.Â
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Getting Started with Sourdough
by Chad Robertson and Jennifer Latham
Read by Chad Robertson and Jennifer Latham
If you’ve always been intrigued by the idea of baking beautiful, post-worthy loaves of bread from your own sourdough starter but have found the process confusing or intimidating, this is your easy entry into producing incredible loaves at home. Learn the basics of wild yeast bread baking in a mini master class from Chad Robertson, world-renowned inventor of Tartine bread, and Tartine head baker Jennifer Latham.
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The Sommelier’s Atlas of Taste
by Rajat Parr and Jordan Mackay
Read by P.J. Ochlan
The first definitive reference book to describe, region-by-region, how the great wines of Europe should taste. This will be the go-to guide for aspiring sommeliers, wine aficionados who want to improve their blind tasting skills, and amateur enthusiasts looking for a straightforward and visceral way to understand and describe wine.
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Pie in the Sky
by Remy Lai
Read by Remy Hii
A poignant, laugh-out-loud middle-grade novel, adapted for audio, about an eleven-year-old boy’s immigration experience, his annoying little brother, and their cake-baking hijinks!
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Crying in H Mart
by Michelle Zauner
Read by Michelle Zauner
From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, comes an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. Vivacious and plainspoken, lyrical and honest, Zauner’s voice is as radiantly alive in this audiobook as it is onstage. Rich with intimate anecdotes that will resonate widely, Crying in H Mart is a book to cherish and share.
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The Botany of Desire
by Michael Pollan
Read by Michael Pollan
In telling the stories of four familiar plant species that are deeply woven into the fabric of our lives, Pollan illustrates how they evolved to satisfy humankind’s most basic yearnings–and by doing so made themselves indispensable. For, just as we’ve benefited from these plants, the plants, in the grand co-evolutionary scheme that Pollan evokes so brilliantly, have done well by us. Weaving fascinating anecdotes and accessible science into gorgeous prose, Pollan takes us on an absorbing journey that will change the way we think about our place in nature.
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Tomatoes for Neela
by Padma Lakshmi
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Bestselling author and host of Bravo’s Top Chef and Hulu’s Taste the Nation Padma Lakshmi takes young readers on an intergenerational journey full of delicious flavors and fun food facts that celebrates a family’s treasured recipes. Tomatoes for Neela lovingly affirms how we can connect to other cultures, as well as to our own, through food.
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