- Biographies (157)

Best Sellers
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Hungry
- By: Grace Dent
- Narrated by: Grace Dent
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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From an early age, Grace Dent was hungry. As a little girl growing up in Currock, Carlisle, she yearned to be something bigger. Hungry traces Grace’s story from growing up eating beige food to becoming one of the much-loved voices on the British food scene....
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Emotional....nostalgic......fabulous
- By Amy Troy on 05-11-20
By: Grace Dent
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Medium Raw
- A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
- By: Anthony Bourdain
- Narrated by: Anthony Bourdain
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Here is Anthony Bourdain's long-awaited sequel to Kitchen Confidential, the worldwide best seller....
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I miss this guy, a great voice for the wayward
- By bahahahahahaha on 20-01-21
By: Anthony Bourdain
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Edible Economics
- A Hungry Economist Explains the World
- By: Ha-Joon Chang
- Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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In Edible Economics, Chang makes challenging economic ideas more palatable by plating them alongside stories about food from around the world....
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A must read
- By Anonymous User on 16-01-23
By: Ha-Joon Chang
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Toast
- The Story of a Boy's Hunger
- By: Nigel Slater
- Narrated by: Nigel Slater
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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A Richard and Judy Book Club Selection.
Britain's most popular cook describes his personal culinary odyssey, from dangerous encounters with his mother's weevil-seasoned cakes to being harangued by readers who think....
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Good book aweful quality recording
- By Jason on 17-02-06
By: Nigel Slater
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The Christmas Chronicles: Notes, stories and 100 essential recipes for midwinter
- By: Nigel Slater
- Narrated by: Nigel Slater
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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From the BBC1 presenter and best-selling author of Eat, The Kitchen Diaries and Toast comes a new audiobook featuring everything you need for the winter solstice....
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Superb
- By Ms on 07-11-17
By: Nigel Slater
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The Hairy Bikers Blood, Sweat and Tyres
- The Autobiography
- By: Si King, Dave Myers
- Narrated by: Si King, Dave Myers
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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The heartwarming, funny and engaging memoir behind the best-selling, big-hearted and down-to-earth chefs, The Hairy Bikers. Written and read by the Hairy Bikers themselves....
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The best audiobook I've ever read
- By Iain on 26-11-15
By: Si King, and others
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Hungry
- By: Grace Dent
- Narrated by: Grace Dent
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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From an early age, Grace Dent was hungry. As a little girl growing up in Currock, Carlisle, she yearned to be something bigger. Hungry traces Grace’s story from growing up eating beige food to becoming one of the much-loved voices on the British food scene....
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Emotional....nostalgic......fabulous
- By Amy Troy on 05-11-20
By: Grace Dent
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Medium Raw
- A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
- By: Anthony Bourdain
- Narrated by: Anthony Bourdain
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Here is Anthony Bourdain's long-awaited sequel to Kitchen Confidential, the worldwide best seller....
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I miss this guy, a great voice for the wayward
- By bahahahahahaha on 20-01-21
By: Anthony Bourdain
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Edible Economics
- A Hungry Economist Explains the World
- By: Ha-Joon Chang
- Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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In Edible Economics, Chang makes challenging economic ideas more palatable by plating them alongside stories about food from around the world....
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A must read
- By Anonymous User on 16-01-23
By: Ha-Joon Chang
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Toast
- The Story of a Boy's Hunger
- By: Nigel Slater
- Narrated by: Nigel Slater
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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A Richard and Judy Book Club Selection.
Britain's most popular cook describes his personal culinary odyssey, from dangerous encounters with his mother's weevil-seasoned cakes to being harangued by readers who think....
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Good book aweful quality recording
- By Jason on 17-02-06
By: Nigel Slater
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The Christmas Chronicles: Notes, stories and 100 essential recipes for midwinter
- By: Nigel Slater
- Narrated by: Nigel Slater
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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From the BBC1 presenter and best-selling author of Eat, The Kitchen Diaries and Toast comes a new audiobook featuring everything you need for the winter solstice....
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Superb
- By Ms on 07-11-17
By: Nigel Slater
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The Hairy Bikers Blood, Sweat and Tyres
- The Autobiography
- By: Si King, Dave Myers
- Narrated by: Si King, Dave Myers
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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The heartwarming, funny and engaging memoir behind the best-selling, big-hearted and down-to-earth chefs, The Hairy Bikers. Written and read by the Hairy Bikers themselves....
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The best audiobook I've ever read
- By Iain on 26-11-15
By: Si King, and others
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The Omnivore's Dilemma
- A Natural History of Four Meals
- By: Michael Pollan
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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"What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another, this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat....
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A must read
- By Fataneh Hamisi on 30-04-20
By: Michael Pollan
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English Food
- A People’s History
- By: Diane Purkiss
- Narrated by: Sarah Kants
- Length: 22 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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In this delicious history of Britain’s food traditions, Diane Purkiss invites listeners on a journey through the centuries, exploring the development of recipes and rituals for mealtimes to show how food has been both a reflection of and inspiration for social continuity and change....
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Ok I suppose
- By Simon Chipperfield on 01-02-23
By: Diane Purkiss
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One More Croissant for the Road
- By: Felicity Cloake
- Narrated by: Felicity Cloake
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
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One More Croissant for the Road sees ‘the nation’s taster in chief’ Felicity Cloake embark on the trip of a lifetime, cycling 3,500km across France in search of the definitive versions of classic French dishes....
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Terrible pronunciation of French words which really is unforgivable in a French story
- By Daisy on 21-07-21
By: Felicity Cloake
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Cooked
- A Natural History of Transformation
- By: Michael Pollan
- Narrated by: Michael Pollan
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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In Cooked, Pollan discovers the enduring power of the four classical elements - fire, water, air, and earth - to transform the stuff of nature into delicious things to eat and drink....
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Fantastic book about so much more than cooking
- By Mila T on 14-01-23
By: Michael Pollan
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Cook, Eat, Repeat
- Ingredients, Recipes and Stories
- By: Nigella Lawson
- Narrated by: Nigella Lawson
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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Cook, Eat, Repeat is a delicious and delightful combination of recipes intertwined with narrative essays about food, all in Nigella's engaging and insightful prose....
By: Nigella Lawson
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Work Clean
- The Life-Changing Power of Mise-en-Place to Organize Your Life, Work and Mind
- By: Dan Charnas
- Narrated by: Dan Charnas
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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Night after night chefs and their crews are able to multitask and produce in a way that puts deskbound workers to shame. In Work Clean, Dan Charnas uncovers their secret....
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A lot of cooking talk
- By JDH on 26-11-16
By: Dan Charnas
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Food: A Cultural Culinary History
- By: Ken Albala, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Ken Albala
- Length: 18 hrs and 22 mins
- Original Recording
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Eating is an indispensable human activity. As a result, whether we realize it or not, the drive to obtain food has been a major catalyst across all of history....
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Oh, dear, poor America!
- By Amazon Customer on 19-11-16
By: Ken Albala, and others
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A Greedy Man in a Hungry World
- How (almost) everything you thought you knew about food is wrong
- By: Jay Rayner
- Narrated by: Jay Rayner
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
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The UK’s most influential food and drink journalist shoots a few sacred cows of food culture....
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Food, Glorious Food?
- By Robert on 28-06-13
By: Jay Rayner
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My Life in France
- By: Julia Child, Alex Prud'Homme
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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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"....
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Lovely!
- By CM on 05-12-13
By: Julia Child, and others
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Scoff
- A History of Food and Class in Britain
- By: Pen Vogler
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In this fascinating social history of food in Britain, Pen Vogler examines the origins of our eating habits and reveals how they are loaded with centuries of class prejudice....
By: Pen Vogler
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Omelette
- Food, Love, Chaos and Other Conversations
- By: Jessie Ware
- Narrated by: Jessie Ware
- Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
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Musings on food, society and life from one of the country's best-loved foodies....
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Delicious
- By JM on 11-03-22
By: Jessie Ware
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The Story of Wine
- From Noah to Now
- By: Hugh Johnson
- Narrated by: Simon De Deney
- Length: 26 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Chronicling the making, merchandising, and drinking of wine through millennia, this new edition is fully updated to include Johnson’s view of the evolution of wine over the past 30 years....
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Impossible narration
- By Amazon Customer on 03-12-22
By: Hugh Johnson
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Appetite
- A Memoir in Recipes of Family and Food
- By: Ed Balls
- Narrated by: Ed Balls
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Abridged
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Ed Balls was just three weeks old when he tried his first meal: pureed roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. While perhaps ill-advised by modern weaning standards, it worked for him in 1967, and from that moment on, he was hooked on food....
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ENJOYABLE READ
- By Rosemary on 28-08-21
By: Ed Balls
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Salt
- A World History
- By: Mark Kurlansky
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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So much of our human body is made up of salt that we'd be dead without it...
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Was pretty boring
- By Anonymous User on 05-10-22
By: Mark Kurlansky
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Chewing the Fat
- Tasting Notes from a Greedy Life
- By: Jay Rayner
- Narrated by: Jay Rayner
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
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Why are gravy stains on your shirt at the dinner table to be admired? Does bacon improve everything? And is gin really the devil's work? In this collection of his hilarious columns, award-winning writer and restaurant critic Jay Rayner answers these vital questions and many, many more....
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Enjoyable Glimpse
- By Yvonne on 19-12-21
By: Jay Rayner
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Red Sauce Brown Sauce
- A British Breakfast Odyssey
- By: Felicity Cloake
- Narrated by: Felicity Cloake
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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In this eagerly anticipated follow up to One More Croissant for the Road, Felicity Cloake sets off on an epic bike ride round Britain to celebrate and investigate the legendary Great British Breakfast....
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Britain, breakfast and bikes
- By Becki123 on 28-12-22
By: Felicity Cloake
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A Cheesemonger's History of the British Isles
- By: Ned Palmer
- Narrated by: Ned Palmer
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
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Cheesemonger Ned Palmer takes us on a delicious journey across Britain and Ireland and through time to uncover the histories of beloved old favourites like Cheddar and Wensleydale and fresh innovations like the Irish Cashel Blue or the rambunctious Renegade Monk....
By: Ned Palmer
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Midnight Chicken
- & Other Recipes Worth Living For
- By: Ella Risbridger
- Narrated by: Ella Risbridger
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
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When the world becomes overwhelming, Ella Risbridger focuses on the little things that bring her joy, like enjoying a glass of wine when cooking, FaceTiming with a friend whilst making bagels and sharing recipes that are good for the soul....
By: Ella Risbridger
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Spilling the Beans
- By: Clarissa Dickson Wright
- Narrated by: Clarissa Dickson Wright
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
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Shortlisted for the British Book Awards, Biography of the Year, 2008.
Here is the no-holds-barred autobiography, read by the author, of one of the nation's best-loved cooks....
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Enchanting throughout! A must read!
- By Alison St Pierre on 06-10-13
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A History of English Food
- By: Clarissa Dickson Wright
- Narrated by: Clarissa Dickson Wright
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
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In this major new history of English food, Clarissa Dickson Wright takes the reader on a journey from the time of the Second Crusade and the feasts of medieval kings to the cuisine of the present day....
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Great holiday 'reading'
- By Cate on 07-04-13
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Dinner with Edward
- A Story of an Unexpected Friendship
- By: Vincent Isabel
- Narrated by: Elise Arsenault
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
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When journalist Isabel Vincent befriends Edward, both are at a crossroads: He wants to follow his late wife to the grave, and she is ready to give up on love....
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Lovely descriptions of the food and friendship
- By Poll on 04-01-21
By: Vincent Isabel
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The Sommelier's Atlas of Taste
- A Field Guide to the Great Wines of Europe
- By: Rajat Parr, Jordan Mackay
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
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The first definitive reference book to describe, region-by-region, how the great wines of Europe should taste....
By: Rajat Parr, and others
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Recipe for Life
- By: Mary Berry
- Narrated by: Patricia Hodge
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Mary Berry's autobiography, Recipe for Life, read by the actress Patricia Hodge....
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Not surprisingly I really enjoyed this!
- By R. Card on 10-01-14
By: Mary Berry
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A Life in Wine
- By: Steven Spurrier
- Narrated by: Richard Avery
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Steven Spurrier is one of the wine trade’s most important figures. Over the years, he took the role of wine merchant, buyer, wine educator, and lecturer; he wrote books, wine courses, and over 300 columns for Decanter magazine....
By: Steven Spurrier
New Releases
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Fieldwork
- A Forager's Memoir
- By: Iliana Regan
- Narrated by: Iliana Regan
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Long based in Chicago, Iliana and her new wife, Anna, decided to create a culinary destination, the Milkweed Inn, located in Michigan’s remote Upper Peninsula, where much of the food served to their guests would be foraged by Regan herself in the surrounding forest and nearby river. Part fresh challenge, part escape, Regan’s move to the forest was also a return to her rural roots, in an effort to deepen the intimate connection to nature and the land that she had long expressed as a chef, but experienced most intensely growing up.
By: Iliana Regan
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From Scratch
- Adventures in Harvesting, Hunting, Fishing, and Foraging on a Fragile Planet
- By: David Moscow, Jon Moscow
- Narrated by: David Moscow
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Moscow takes us on deep dives (sometimes literally) with fisherfolk, farmers, scientists, community activists, historians, hunters, and more, bringing back stories of the communities, workers, and environments involved—some thriving, some in jeopardy, all interconnected with food.
By: David Moscow, and others
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Kentucky Bourbon
- The Early Years of Whiskeymaking
- By: Henry G. Crowgey
- Narrated by: Ian Putnam
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Bourbon whiskey is perhaps Kentucky's most distinctive product. Despite bourbon's prominence in the social and economic life of the Bluegrass state, many myths and legends surround its origins. In Kentucky Bourbon, Henry C. Crowgey claims that distilled spirits and pioneer settlement went hand in hand; Isaac Shelby, the state's first governor, was among Kentucky's pioneer distillers. Crowgey traces the drink's history from its beginnings as a cottage industry to steam-based commercial operations in the period just before the Civil War.
By: Henry G. Crowgey
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A Taste of Opportunity
- An Insider’s Guide to Boosting Your Career, Making Your Mark, and Changing the Food Industry from Within
- By: Renee Guilbault
- Narrated by: Renee Guilbault
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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The food world has long kept a big secret: that everything is possible in this industry. Big dreams? You can achieve them here. No degree or connections? No problem. The scale of opportunity to earn a fantastic income, live a life of creativity and freedom, and even change the world is staggering. And all you need to get started is yourself.
By: Renee Guilbault
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My First Popsicle
- An Anthology of Food and Feelings
- By: Zosia Mamet - editor
- Narrated by: Zosia Mamet, Sian Clifford, Ted Danson, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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With an incredible list of celebrated contributors including DAVID SEDARIS, NAOMI FRY, PATTI SMITH, SIAN CLIFFORD and JIA TOLENTINO, My First Popsicle revels in the delights of food in all its forms. Edited by ZOSIA MAMET—Shoshanna in Girls—this is a riotous, mouth-watering celebration of jelly, mac and cheese, donuts, the best sandwich in the entire world—and much more.
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Scoff
- A History of Food and Class in Britain
- By: Pen Vogler
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In this fascinating social history of food in Britain, Pen Vogler examines the origins of our eating habits and reveals how they are loaded with centuries of class prejudice. Covering such topics as fish and chips, roast beef, avocados, tripe, fish knives and the surprising origins of breakfast, Scoff reveals how in Britain we have become experts at using eating habits to make judgements about social background.
By: Pen Vogler
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Fieldwork
- A Forager's Memoir
- By: Iliana Regan
- Narrated by: Iliana Regan
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Long based in Chicago, Iliana and her new wife, Anna, decided to create a culinary destination, the Milkweed Inn, located in Michigan’s remote Upper Peninsula, where much of the food served to their guests would be foraged by Regan herself in the surrounding forest and nearby river. Part fresh challenge, part escape, Regan’s move to the forest was also a return to her rural roots, in an effort to deepen the intimate connection to nature and the land that she had long expressed as a chef, but experienced most intensely growing up.
By: Iliana Regan
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From Scratch
- Adventures in Harvesting, Hunting, Fishing, and Foraging on a Fragile Planet
- By: David Moscow, Jon Moscow
- Narrated by: David Moscow
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Moscow takes us on deep dives (sometimes literally) with fisherfolk, farmers, scientists, community activists, historians, hunters, and more, bringing back stories of the communities, workers, and environments involved—some thriving, some in jeopardy, all interconnected with food.
By: David Moscow, and others
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Kentucky Bourbon
- The Early Years of Whiskeymaking
- By: Henry G. Crowgey
- Narrated by: Ian Putnam
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Bourbon whiskey is perhaps Kentucky's most distinctive product. Despite bourbon's prominence in the social and economic life of the Bluegrass state, many myths and legends surround its origins. In Kentucky Bourbon, Henry C. Crowgey claims that distilled spirits and pioneer settlement went hand in hand; Isaac Shelby, the state's first governor, was among Kentucky's pioneer distillers. Crowgey traces the drink's history from its beginnings as a cottage industry to steam-based commercial operations in the period just before the Civil War.
By: Henry G. Crowgey
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A Taste of Opportunity
- An Insider’s Guide to Boosting Your Career, Making Your Mark, and Changing the Food Industry from Within
- By: Renee Guilbault
- Narrated by: Renee Guilbault
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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The food world has long kept a big secret: that everything is possible in this industry. Big dreams? You can achieve them here. No degree or connections? No problem. The scale of opportunity to earn a fantastic income, live a life of creativity and freedom, and even change the world is staggering. And all you need to get started is yourself.
By: Renee Guilbault
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My First Popsicle
- An Anthology of Food and Feelings
- By: Zosia Mamet - editor
- Narrated by: Zosia Mamet, Sian Clifford, Ted Danson, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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With an incredible list of celebrated contributors including DAVID SEDARIS, NAOMI FRY, PATTI SMITH, SIAN CLIFFORD and JIA TOLENTINO, My First Popsicle revels in the delights of food in all its forms. Edited by ZOSIA MAMET—Shoshanna in Girls—this is a riotous, mouth-watering celebration of jelly, mac and cheese, donuts, the best sandwich in the entire world—and much more.
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Scoff
- A History of Food and Class in Britain
- By: Pen Vogler
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In this fascinating social history of food in Britain, Pen Vogler examines the origins of our eating habits and reveals how they are loaded with centuries of class prejudice. Covering such topics as fish and chips, roast beef, avocados, tripe, fish knives and the surprising origins of breakfast, Scoff reveals how in Britain we have become experts at using eating habits to make judgements about social background.
By: Pen Vogler