Food Essays

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    • By: John McPhee
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a magazine article, but John McPhee kept encountering so much irresistible information that he wrote a book. It is perhaps the last word on the subject (the first came in 500 BC and is attributed to Confucius)....

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    • Essays and Ruminations
    • By: Alton Brown
    • Narrated by: Alton Brown
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 02-04-25
    • Language: English
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    • From Alton Brown, the New York Times bestselling cookbook author and beloved culinary food personality, a debut collection of personal essays defined by his flair, wit, and insight.

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    • Essays on Hunger and Harm
    • By: Emmeline Clein
    • Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
    • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • In Dead Weight, Emmeline Clein recounts her struggle with disordered eating alongside the stories of other women: historical figures, pop culture celebrities, and the girls she’s known and loved....

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    • Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with Recipes)
    • By: Kate Lebo
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Difficult fruits serve as the central ingredients of 26 lyrical essays that range from deeply personal to botanical, from culinary to medical, from humorous to philosophical....

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    • A Recipe for a Delicious Life in Paris
    • By: Alexander Lobrano
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • 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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    • What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World’s Ugliest Sweater
    • By: Peggy Orenstein
    • Narrated by: Peggy Orenstein
    • Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 151 ratings
    • The COVID pandemic propelled many people to change their lives in ways large and small. Some adopted puppies. Others stress-baked. Peggy Orenstein, a lifelong knitter, went just a little further....

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    • An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Family
    • By: Madhushree Ghosh
    • Narrated by: Deepti Gupta
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Khabaar is a food memoir and personal narrative that braids the global journeys of South Asian food through immigration, migration, and indenture....

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    • 12,000 Years of Culinary History in 50 Bite-Size Essays
    • By: Uta Seeburg, Max Miller - foreword by
    • Narrated by: Adi Cabral
    • Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 05-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • How Would You Like Your Mammoth? is a chronological journey through the culinary history of humankind, with fifty short, snackable essays packed to the brim with juicy tidbits and cultural insights.

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    • Essays Exposing the Myth of Happy Meat, Humane Dairy, and Ethical Eggs
    • By: Hope Bohanec
    • Narrated by: Erin Rind
    • Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 01-23-24
    • Language: English
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    • As consumers become increasingly aware of the animal agriculture industry’s cruelty and environmental devastation, clever industry marketers are adapting with alternative “humane” and “sustainable” labeling and marketing campaigns....

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    • An Epic in the Kitchen
    • By: Rebecca May Johnson
    • Narrated by: Kim Bretton
    • Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-23
    • Language: English
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    • Rebecca May Johnson reinvents cooking—that simple act of rolling up our sleeves, wielding a knife, spattering red hot sauce on our books—as a way of experiencing ourselves and the world....

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    • Study of a Spring Meal
    • By: Thom Eagle
    • Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
    • Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-20
    • Language: English
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    • First, Catch is a cookbook without recipes, an invitation to journey through the digressive mind of a chef at work, and a hymn to a singular nine-dish festive spring lunch....

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    • Tasting Notes from a Greedy Life
    • By: Jay Rayner
    • Narrated by: Jay Rayner
    • Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • 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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    • A Memoir in Recipes of Family and Food
    • By: Ed Balls
    • Narrated by: Ed Balls
    • Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 08-19-21
    • Language: English
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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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    • Notes on Cooking & Eating
    • By: Rachel Cooke
    • Narrated by: Rachel Cooke
    • Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-23
    • Language: English
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    • In 2009, Rachel Cooke started a monthly column for The Observer on cooking and eating: here are her fifty best....

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