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The Farmer's Wife
- My Life in Days
- By: Helen Rebanks
- Narrated by: Verity Henry
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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As dawn breaks on the farm, Helen Rebanks makes a mug of tea, relishing the few minutes of quiet before the house stirs. Within the hour the sounds of her husband, James, and their four children will fill the kitchen....
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clean honest account of cooking and living in a rural area .Lovely recipes for anyone starting out family life
- By rbooler on 14-01-24
By: Helen Rebanks
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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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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
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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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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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Oz Clarke’s Story of Wine
- 8000 Years, 100 Bottles
- By: Oz Clarke
- Narrated by: Oz Clarke
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Winemaking is as old as civilization itself. For thousands of years, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to its current status as a global industry, the history of wine has been directly related to major social, cultural, religious and economic changes....
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Great for geeks
- By Sophia Williams on 11-03-24
By: Oz Clarke
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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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A lovely book, makes you full just listening to it
- By Anonymous User on 11-08-23
By: Felicity Cloake
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The Farmer's Wife
- My Life in Days
- By: Helen Rebanks
- Narrated by: Verity Henry
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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As dawn breaks on the farm, Helen Rebanks makes a mug of tea, relishing the few minutes of quiet before the house stirs. Within the hour the sounds of her husband, James, and their four children will fill the kitchen....
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clean honest account of cooking and living in a rural area .Lovely recipes for anyone starting out family life
- By rbooler on 14-01-24
By: Helen Rebanks
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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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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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One More Croissant for the Road
- By: Felicity Cloake
- Narrated by: Felicity Cloake
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Oz Clarke’s Story of Wine
- 8000 Years, 100 Bottles
- By: Oz Clarke
- Narrated by: Oz Clarke
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Winemaking is as old as civilization itself. For thousands of years, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to its current status as a global industry, the history of wine has been directly related to major social, cultural, religious and economic changes....
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Great for geeks
- By Sophia Williams on 11-03-24
By: Oz Clarke
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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
- Unabridged
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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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A lovely book, makes you full just listening to it
- By Anonymous User on 11-08-23
By: Felicity Cloake
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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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Cold Kitchen
- A Year of Culinary Journeys
- By: Caroline Eden
- Narrated by: Caroline Eden
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
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A welcoming refuge with its tempting pantry, shelves of books and inquisitive dog, Caroline Eden finds comfort away from the road in her basement Edinburgh kitchen.
By: Caroline Eden
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Raw Dog
- The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
- By: Jamie Loftus
- Narrated by: Jamie Loftus
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique—comedian Jamie Loftus's debut, Raw Dog, will take you on a cross-country road trip in the summer of 2021, and reveal what the creation, culture, and class influence of hot dogs says about America now....
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Leftist hot dog humour
- By Mr. James M. Currie on 12-04-24
By: Jamie Loftus
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Au Revoir to All That
- Food, Wine, and the End of France
- By: Michael Steinberger
- Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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A rich, lively book about the upheaval in French gastronomy, set against the backdrop of France's diminishing fortunes as a nation....
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Au Revoir to happiness and romance
- By Jeroth on 17-01-11
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A Sense of Place
- A Journey Around Scotland’s Whisky
- By: Dave Broom
- Narrated by: Dave Broom
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
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In this beautifully crafted narrative, award-winning writer Dave Broom examines Scotch whisky from the point of view of its terroir—the land, weather, history, craft and culture that feed and enhance the whisky itself....
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Enjoyed it
- By Stuart Shearlaw on 23-02-23
By: Dave Broom
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Salt
- A World History
- By: Mark Kurlansky
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
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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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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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Girl on the Block
- A True Story of Coming of Age Behind the Counter
- By: Jessica Wragg
- Narrated by: Billie Fulford-Brown
- Length: 6 hrs
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When 16-year-old Jessica Wragg applied for a job at her local farm shop in Derbyshire, England, she never expected to land a position behind the butchery counter....
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A fascinating and truly enjoyable listening experience
- By C. M. Mitchell on 21-08-19
By: Jessica Wragg
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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
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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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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....
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Shouldn’t be an audiobook
- By Anonymous User on 13-01-24
By: Rajat Parr, and others
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Risotto with Nettles
- A Memoir with Food
- By: Anna Del Conte
- Narrated by: Rula Lenska
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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Anna Del Conte brought Italian cooking to Britain at a time when the nearest most of us came to pasta was a Heinz spaghetti hoop....
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Wonderful!
- By Daniel W Roberts on 16-10-16
By: Anna Del Conte
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It Was Me All Along
- A Memoir
- By: Andie Mitchell
- Narrated by: Andie Mitchell
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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A heartbreakingly honest, endearing memoir of incredible weight loss by a young food blogger who battles body image issues and overcomes food addiction....
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This book teaches very little…a steady yarn
- By M.A.TAYLOR on 11-01-23
By: Andie Mitchell
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A Life in Wine
- By: Steven Spurrier
- Narrated by: Richard Avery
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
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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
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Delizia!
- The Epic History of the Italians and Their Food
- By: John Dickie
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
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Buon appetito! Everyone loves Italian food. But how did the Italians come to eat so well? The answer lies amid the vibrant beauty of Italy's historic cities....
By: John Dickie
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Ritz and Escoffier
- The Hotelier, The Chef, and the Rise of the Leisure Class
- By: Luke Barr
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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In early August 1889, César Ritz, a Swiss hotelier highly regarded for his exquisite taste, found himself at the Savoy Hotel in London....
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Fascinating book, narration quite irritating.
- By Davina on 23-09-20
By: Luke Barr
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Eating for England
- The Delights and Eccentricities of the British at Table
- By: Nigel Slater
- Narrated by: Nigel Slater
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
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The British have a relationship with their food that is unlike that of any other country....
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And Scotland, Wales and Ireland ............
- By Joan on 05-11-07
By: Nigel Slater
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Food: A Love Story
- By: Jim Gaffigan
- Narrated by: Jim Gaffigan
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
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Bacon. McDonalds. 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 (“choking on bacon is like getting murdered by your lover”) and decrying the worst offenders....
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Shopping list
- By Caron on 11-07-17
By: Jim Gaffigan
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Cooked
- A Natural History of Transformation
- By: Michael Pollan
- Narrated by: Michael Pollan
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
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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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Great Book
- By JohnB on 10-04-16
By: Michael Pollan
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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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Nourishing Diets
- By: Sally Fallon Morell
- Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
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In Nourishing Diets best-selling author Sally Fallon Morell debunks diet myths to explore what our ancestors from around the globe really ate - and what we can learn from them to be healthy, fit, and better nourished, today....
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Molecular Gastronomy
- Exploring the Science of Flavor
- By: Herve This
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
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Molecular Gastronomy documents the sensory phenomena of eating and uses basic physics to put to bed many culinary myths....
By: Herve This
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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
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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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America the Edible
- A Hungry History, from Sea to Dining Sea
- By: Adam Richman
- Narrated by: Adam Richman
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
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Adam Richman, the exuberant host of Travel Channel’s Man v. Food and Man v. Food Nation, has made it his business to root out unique dining experiences from coast to coast....
By: Adam Richman
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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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Delightful
- By Amazon Customer on 28-10-23
By: Jessie Ware
New Releases
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My Family and Other Rock Stars
- By: Tiffany Murray
- Narrated by: Rachel Atkins, Tiffany Murray
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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My Family and Other Rock Stars is Tiff's remarkable, truly unique story of growing up in a rural idyll, of Cordon Bleu cookery and of a childhood where the chances of bumping into Freddie Mercury playing piano, or a group of Hell's Angels turning up to record for Lemmy, or even the hope of David Bowie appearing, were as normal as hopscotch and homework.
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Unlistenable
- By C. S. Lindsay-davies on 19-05-24
By: Tiffany Murray
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The Bourbon Drinker’s Companion
- A Guide to American Distilleries, with Travel Advice, Folklore, and Tasting Notes
- By: Colin Spoelman
- Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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The Bourbon Drinker's Companion is a narrative journey into the heart of American craft distilleries, taking listeners from the well-known Jim Beam Booker Noe plant to craft whiskey brewers on the West Coast to the emerging new traditional distillers of the South, in search of America's best whiskey. Bestselling author Colin Spoelman is back to celebrate all things whiskey as he explores the effect branding, taste, region, and distilling processes have on America's beloved and most notorious drink.
By: Colin Spoelman
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Cold Kitchen
- A Year of Culinary Journeys
- By: Caroline Eden
- Narrated by: Caroline Eden
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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A welcoming refuge with its tempting pantry, shelves of books and inquisitive dog, Caroline Eden finds comfort away from the road in her basement Edinburgh kitchen. Join her as she cooks recipes from her travels, reflects on past adventures and contemplates the kitchen’s unique ability to tell human stories. This is a hauntingly honest, and at times heartbreaking, memoir with the smell, taste and preparation of food at its heart.
By: Caroline Eden
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Eat Like a Local: Bangladesh
- Bangladesh Food Guide
- By: Sofia Kamal
- Narrated by: Mark Dunham
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want an edible experience? Would you like some culinary guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Eat Like a Local book is for you. Eat like a Local–Bangladesh by Author Sofia Kamal offers the inside scoop on food in Bangladesh. Culinary tourism is an important aspect of any travel experience. Food has the ability to tell you a story of a destination, its landscapes, and culture on a single plate.
By: Sofia Kamal
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Bite by Bite
- Nourishments and Jamborees
- By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- Narrated by: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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In Bite by Bite, poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil explores the way food and drink evoke our associations and remembrances—a subtext or layering, a flavor tinged with joy, shame, exuberance, grief, desire, or nostalgia. Nezhukmatathil restores our astonishment and wonder about food through her encounters with a range of foods and food traditions. From shave ice to lumpia, mangoes to pecans, rambutan to vanilla, she investigates how food marks our experiences and identities and explores the boundaries between heritage and memory.
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The Cocktail Parlor
- How Women Brought the Cocktail Home
- By: Nicola Nice, Robert Simonson - Foreword by
- Narrated by: Allyson Voller
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Journeying through the decades, this book profiles a diverse array of influential hostesses. With each historic era comes iconic recipes, featuring a total of forty main cocktails and more than 100 variations that listeners can make at home. Whether its happy hour punch a la Martha Washington or a Harlem Renaissance-inspired Green Skirt, listeners will find that many of the ingredients and drinks they're familiar with today wouldn't be here without the hostesses who served them first.
By: Nicola Nice, and others
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My Family and Other Rock Stars
- By: Tiffany Murray
- Narrated by: Rachel Atkins, Tiffany Murray
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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My Family and Other Rock Stars is Tiff's remarkable, truly unique story of growing up in a rural idyll, of Cordon Bleu cookery and of a childhood where the chances of bumping into Freddie Mercury playing piano, or a group of Hell's Angels turning up to record for Lemmy, or even the hope of David Bowie appearing, were as normal as hopscotch and homework.
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Unlistenable
- By C. S. Lindsay-davies on 19-05-24
By: Tiffany Murray
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The Bourbon Drinker’s Companion
- A Guide to American Distilleries, with Travel Advice, Folklore, and Tasting Notes
- By: Colin Spoelman
- Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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The Bourbon Drinker's Companion is a narrative journey into the heart of American craft distilleries, taking listeners from the well-known Jim Beam Booker Noe plant to craft whiskey brewers on the West Coast to the emerging new traditional distillers of the South, in search of America's best whiskey. Bestselling author Colin Spoelman is back to celebrate all things whiskey as he explores the effect branding, taste, region, and distilling processes have on America's beloved and most notorious drink.
By: Colin Spoelman
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Cold Kitchen
- A Year of Culinary Journeys
- By: Caroline Eden
- Narrated by: Caroline Eden
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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A welcoming refuge with its tempting pantry, shelves of books and inquisitive dog, Caroline Eden finds comfort away from the road in her basement Edinburgh kitchen. Join her as she cooks recipes from her travels, reflects on past adventures and contemplates the kitchen’s unique ability to tell human stories. This is a hauntingly honest, and at times heartbreaking, memoir with the smell, taste and preparation of food at its heart.
By: Caroline Eden
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Eat Like a Local: Bangladesh
- Bangladesh Food Guide
- By: Sofia Kamal
- Narrated by: Mark Dunham
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want an edible experience? Would you like some culinary guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Eat Like a Local book is for you. Eat like a Local–Bangladesh by Author Sofia Kamal offers the inside scoop on food in Bangladesh. Culinary tourism is an important aspect of any travel experience. Food has the ability to tell you a story of a destination, its landscapes, and culture on a single plate.
By: Sofia Kamal
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Bite by Bite
- Nourishments and Jamborees
- By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- Narrated by: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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In Bite by Bite, poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil explores the way food and drink evoke our associations and remembrances—a subtext or layering, a flavor tinged with joy, shame, exuberance, grief, desire, or nostalgia. Nezhukmatathil restores our astonishment and wonder about food through her encounters with a range of foods and food traditions. From shave ice to lumpia, mangoes to pecans, rambutan to vanilla, she investigates how food marks our experiences and identities and explores the boundaries between heritage and memory.
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The Cocktail Parlor
- How Women Brought the Cocktail Home
- By: Nicola Nice, Robert Simonson - Foreword by
- Narrated by: Allyson Voller
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Journeying through the decades, this book profiles a diverse array of influential hostesses. With each historic era comes iconic recipes, featuring a total of forty main cocktails and more than 100 variations that listeners can make at home. Whether its happy hour punch a la Martha Washington or a Harlem Renaissance-inspired Green Skirt, listeners will find that many of the ingredients and drinks they're familiar with today wouldn't be here without the hostesses who served them first.
By: Nicola Nice, and others
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Finding Freedom in the Lost Kitchen
- By: Erin French
- Narrated by: Erin French
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Erin French grew up barefoot on a farm, fell in love with food as a teenager working the line at her dad’s diner and found her calling as a professional chef at her tiny restaurant The Lost Kitchen, tucked into a 19th-century mill—now a world-renowned dining destination. In Finding Freedom in the Lost Kitchen, Erin tells her story of multiple rock-bottoms, from medical student to pregnant teen, of survival as a jobless single mother, of pills that promised release but delivered addiction, of a man who seemed to offer salvation but ripped away her very sense of self
By: Erin French
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Vintage Life Cheats, Hacks, Hints, Tips, and Tricks Guide
- By: Trevor Clinger
- Narrated by: Amanda Thomas
- Length: 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Delve into a world where ingenuity and resourcefulness reigned supreme, as we uncover a treasure trove of vintage life cheats, hacks, hints, tips, and tricks passed down through generations. From clever shortcuts for everyday tasks to ingenious fixes for common problems, this enchanting compendium offers a glimpse into the creativity and innovation of bygone eras. Discover how our ancestors navigated life's challenges with flair and finesse and learn how to infuse your modern-day routines with a touch of vintage elegance.
By: Trevor Clinger
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Chocolate History and Life Cycle
- By: Rich Linville
- Narrated by: Jack Watson
- Length: 12 mins
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Chocolate is one of the most popular flavors in the world. Over 5,000 years ago in the rainforests of Ecuador, the people planted the seeds from the wild cocoa trees. They ground the beans to make a chocolate drink with water.
By: Rich Linville
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Dusty Booze
- In Search of Vintage Spirits
- By: Aaron Goldfarb
- Narrated by: Dean Gallagher
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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In Dusty Booze: In Search of Vintage Spirits, journalist Aaron Goldfarb goes on an adventure in vintage spirits. This is an intoxicating story of obsessives on the hunt for old bottles of whiskey, tequila, rum, chartreuse—you name it—from estate sales, grandpa's liquor cabinet, and out-of-the-way and inner-city liquor stores that may just have a case or a few bottles lying around in the basement.
By: Aaron Goldfarb
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Yum? Interesting Origin Stories, Trivia, Fun Facts, and History About Food from Around the World
- Culinary Anecdotes for Curious People
- By: Riddleland
- Narrated by: Slade Hovick
- Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Have you ever pondered... What led to the creation of the humble sandwich? Why does chocolate have that irresistible allure? What's the story behind our morning cup of coffee? Like the ever-curious, you've perhaps questioned the origins of these everyday items on your plate. Prepare yourself for an enlightening journey as you uncover your favorite foods' unexpected and perhaps slightly peculiar history.
By: Riddleland
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The Tea Lover's Treasury: 40th Anniversary Edition
- By: James Norwood Pratt
- Narrated by: James Norwood Pratt
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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A classic—newly revised for this 40th Anniversary Edition, and read for you by the author—The Tea Lover’s Treasury is credited with sparking America’s present-day Tea Renaissance. The world’s most widely quoted tea authority narrates the story of tea's dramatic history since its mysterious origins in ancient China, and guides us on a journey through the world's tea growing regions to explore the finest teas from China, Japan, India, and beyond.