- Biographies (189)
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Slow Cooked
- An Unexpected Life in Food Politics
- By: Marion Nestle
- Narrated by: Maria Marquis
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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Marion Nestle reflects on her late-in-life career as a world-renowned food-politics expert, public-health advocate, and a founder of the field of food studies after facing decades of low expectations....
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A must listen for anyone interested in food
- By Aline on 12-02-2023
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The Third Plate
- Field Notes on the Future of Food
- By: Dan Barber
- Narrated by: Dan Barber
- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
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Today’s optimistic farm-to-table food culture has a dark secret: The local food movement has failed to change how we eat. It has also offered a false promise for the future of food....
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Fabulous
- By Anonymous User on 16-02-2023
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The Last Night on the Titanic
- Unsinkable Drinking, Dining, and Style
- By: Veronica Hinke
- Narrated by: Gary J. Chambers
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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April 14, 1912. It was an unforgettable night. In the last hours before the Titanic struck the iceberg, passengers in all classes were enjoying unprecedented luxuries. Innovations in food, drink, and décor made this voyage the apogee of Edwardian elegance....
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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
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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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Beautifully Written
- By Amy MacDougall on 15-09-2023
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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....
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Love, Loss, and What We Ate
- A Memoir
- By: Padma Lakshmi
- Narrated by: Padma Lakshmi
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
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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....
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Amazing book, beautifully narrated
- By Anonymous User on 07-03-2021
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Slow Cooked
- An Unexpected Life in Food Politics
- By: Marion Nestle
- Narrated by: Maria Marquis
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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Marion Nestle reflects on her late-in-life career as a world-renowned food-politics expert, public-health advocate, and a founder of the field of food studies after facing decades of low expectations....
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A must listen for anyone interested in food
- By Aline on 12-02-2023
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The Third Plate
- Field Notes on the Future of Food
- By: Dan Barber
- Narrated by: Dan Barber
- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Today’s optimistic farm-to-table food culture has a dark secret: The local food movement has failed to change how we eat. It has also offered a false promise for the future of food....
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Fabulous
- By Anonymous User on 16-02-2023
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The Last Night on the Titanic
- Unsinkable Drinking, Dining, and Style
- By: Veronica Hinke
- Narrated by: Gary J. Chambers
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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April 14, 1912. It was an unforgettable night. In the last hours before the Titanic struck the iceberg, passengers in all classes were enjoying unprecedented luxuries. Innovations in food, drink, and décor made this voyage the apogee of Edwardian elegance....
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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
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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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Beautifully Written
- By Amy MacDougall on 15-09-2023
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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....
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Love, Loss, and What We Ate
- A Memoir
- By: Padma Lakshmi
- Narrated by: Padma Lakshmi
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
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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....
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Amazing book, beautifully narrated
- By Anonymous User on 07-03-2021
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Milk!
- A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
- By: Mark Kurlansky
- Narrated by: Brian Sutherland
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
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Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the best-selling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic and culinary story of milk and all things dairy....
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The narration of this book killed it for me
- By Amazon Customer on 15-02-2020
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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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Whiskey Master Class
- The Ultimate Guide to Understanding Scotch, Bourbon, Rye, and More
- By: Lew Bryson, Bill Lumsden - foreword
- Narrated by: Lew Bryson
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
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Over the past three decades, Lew Bryson has been one of the most influential voices in whiskey. In Whiskey Master Class, Lew shares everything he's learned on his journey through the worlds of bourbon, Scotch, rye, Japanese whiskey, and more....
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Outstanding
- By 123HG on 25-09-2023
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Drink Beer, Think Beer
- Getting to the Bottom of Every Pint
- By: John Holl
- Narrated by: John Holl
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
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From an award-winning journalist and beer expert, a thoughtful and witty guide to understanding and enjoying beer....
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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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Excellent book
- By Anonymous User on 14-11-2023
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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
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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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An excellent book
- By Anonymous User on 29-03-2021
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My Life in France
- By: Julia Child, Alex Prud'Homme
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
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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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Beautiful
- By Anonymous User on 03-01-2023
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The Comfort Food Diaries
- My Quest for the Perfect Dish to Mend a Broken Heart
- By: Emily Nunn
- Narrated by: Candace Thaxton
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
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Emily Nunn chronicles her journey to heal old wounds and find comfort in the face of loss through travel, home-cooked food, and the company of friends and family....
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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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A good book to dip into
- By TerrierTops on 19-03-2017
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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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Sad it is over...glad it happened to me
- By Stephen Booth on 27-08-2023
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Mango and Peppercorns
- A Memoir of Food, an Unlikely Family, and the American Dream
- By: Tung Nguyen, Katherine Manning, Lyn Nguyen, and others
- Narrated by: Quyen Ngo, Cindy Kay, VyVy Nguyen
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
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A powerful memoir of resilience, friendship, family, and food from the acclaimed chefs behind the award-winning Hy Vong Vietnamese restaurant in Miami....
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Letters to a Young Chef
- By: Daniel Boulud
- Narrated by: Mario Brassard
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
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In Letters to a Young Chef, Daniel Boulud speaks not only of how to make a career as a chef in today's world, but also of why one should want to do so in the first place....
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My Place at the Table
- A Recipe for a Delicious Life in Paris
- By: Alexander Lobrano
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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A mouthwatering testament to the healing power of food, My Place at the Table is a moving coming-of-age story of how a gay man emerges from a wounding childhood, discovers himself, and finds love....
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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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A waste of time and money
- By Andrew on 29-03-2016
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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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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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Engaging but...
- By lorna copper on 16-04-2018
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The Drunken Botanist
- The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks
- By: Amy Stewart
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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Every great drink starts with a plant. Sake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley. Gin was born from a conifer shrub....
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Fun, informative book for anyone who eats or drink
- By Anonymous User on 28-06-2021
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In-N-Out Burger
- A Behind-the-Counter Look at the Fast-Food Chain That Breaks All the Rules
- By: Stacy Perman
- Narrated by: Loren Lester
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
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It's the untold story of the renegade burger chain that evokes a passionate following unlike any other. In fast-food corporate America, In-N-Out Burger stands apart....
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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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simply wonderful
- By Narelle Kennedy on 28-05-2019
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The Billionaire's Vinegar
- The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
- By: Benjamin Wallace
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
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It was the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold. In 1985, at a heated auction by Christie’s of London, a 1787 bottle of Château Lafite Bordeaux - one of a cache of bottles unearthed in a bricked-up Paris cellar and supposedly owned by Thomas Jefferson - went for $156,000....
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Boring
- By Anonymous User on 06-04-2020
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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
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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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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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Thorough and informative
- By B on 01-06-2022
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99 Bottles
- A Black Sheep's Guide to Life-Changing Wines
- By: André Hueston Mack
- Narrated by: André Hueston Mack
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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A highly opinionated wine guide from one of the country’s most celebrated - and unorthodox - sommeliers and winemakers....
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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....
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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
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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.
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Finding Freedom in the Lost Kitchen
- By: Erin French
- Narrated by: Erin French
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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From Erin French, owner and chef of the critically acclaimed The Lost Kitchen, comes a life-affirming memoir about survival, renewal and the pleasure of bringing joy to people through food.
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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.
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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.
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Dusty Booze
- In Search of Vintage Spirits
- By: Aaron Goldfarb
- Narrated by: Dean Gallagher
- Length: 10 hrs
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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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From Erin French, owner and chef of the critically acclaimed The Lost Kitchen, comes a life-affirming memoir about survival, renewal and the pleasure of bringing joy to people through food.
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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.
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Chocolate History and Life Cycle
- By: Rich Linville
- Narrated by: Jack Watson
- Length: 12 mins
- Unabridged
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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.
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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.
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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.