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Bestsellers
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Be Ready When the Luck Happens
- A Memoir
- By: Ina Garten
- Narrated by: Ina Garten
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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In her long-awaited memoir, Ina Garten—aka the Barefoot Contessa, author of thirteen bestselling cookbooks, beloved Food Network personality, Instagram sensation, and cultural icon—shares her personal story with those hungry for a seat at her table.
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I love that Ina narrated it.
- By Tricia on 10-06-24
By: Ina Garten
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Kitchen Confidential
- Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
- By: Anthony Bourdain
- Narrated by: Anthony Bourdain
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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deliciously funny and shockingly delectable audiobook, sure to delight gourmands and philistines alike....
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Kitchen Confidential
- By Holly on 02-20-03
By: Anthony Bourdain
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What I Ate in One Year
- (and related thoughts)
- By: Stanley Tucci
- Narrated by: Stanley Tucci
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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From Stanley Tucci, award-winning actor and New York Times bestselling author, a deliciously unique memoir chronicling a year’s worth of meals.
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Not worth it
- By Tori on 10-21-24
By: Stanley Tucci
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Taste
- My Life Through Food
- By: Stanley Tucci
- Narrated by: Stanley Tucci
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kitchen....
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Should include a pdf of recipes
- By Jen Griffin on 10-23-21
By: Stanley Tucci
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Love & Whiskey
- By: Fawn Weaver
- Narrated by: Fawn Weaver
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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Love & Whiskey is the true story of Jack Daniel, Nearest Green, the man, and Uncle Nearest, the whiskey company Fawn Weaver founded to honor and amplify Green's legacy.
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Just WOW…
- By Anonymous User on 10-11-24
By: Fawn Weaver
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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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What a pleasure!
- By Sara on 07-03-08
By: Julia Child, and others
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Be Ready When the Luck Happens
- A Memoir
- By: Ina Garten
- Narrated by: Ina Garten
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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In her long-awaited memoir, Ina Garten—aka the Barefoot Contessa, author of thirteen bestselling cookbooks, beloved Food Network personality, Instagram sensation, and cultural icon—shares her personal story with those hungry for a seat at her table.
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I love that Ina narrated it.
- By Tricia on 10-06-24
By: Ina Garten
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Kitchen Confidential
- Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
- By: Anthony Bourdain
- Narrated by: Anthony Bourdain
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
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deliciously funny and shockingly delectable audiobook, sure to delight gourmands and philistines alike....
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Kitchen Confidential
- By Holly on 02-20-03
By: Anthony Bourdain
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What I Ate in One Year
- (and related thoughts)
- By: Stanley Tucci
- Narrated by: Stanley Tucci
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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From Stanley Tucci, award-winning actor and New York Times bestselling author, a deliciously unique memoir chronicling a year’s worth of meals.
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Not worth it
- By Tori on 10-21-24
By: Stanley Tucci
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Taste
- My Life Through Food
- By: Stanley Tucci
- Narrated by: Stanley Tucci
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kitchen....
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Should include a pdf of recipes
- By Jen Griffin on 10-23-21
By: Stanley Tucci
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Love & Whiskey
- By: Fawn Weaver
- Narrated by: Fawn Weaver
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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Love & Whiskey is the true story of Jack Daniel, Nearest Green, the man, and Uncle Nearest, the whiskey company Fawn Weaver founded to honor and amplify Green's legacy.
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Just WOW…
- By Anonymous User on 10-11-24
By: Fawn Weaver
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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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What a pleasure!
- By Sara on 07-03-08
By: Julia Child, and others
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World Travel
- An Irreverent Guide
- By: Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever
- Narrated by: Laurie Woolever, Shep Gordon, Christopher Bourdain, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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A guide to some of the world’s most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony Bourdain....
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Poor man’s version of Lonely Planet guidebooks
- By KC on 04-23-21
By: Anthony Bourdain, and others
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The Devil in the Kitchen
- Sex, Pain, Madness, and the Making of a Great Chef
- By: Marco Pierre White, James Steen
- Narrated by: Timothy Bentinck
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
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In The Devil in the Kitchen, White tells the story behind his ascent from working-class roots to culinary greatness, leaving no dish unserved....
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A chef / restaurateur must.
- By Brandon on 07-18-16
By: Marco Pierre White, and others
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Humble Pie
- By: Gordon Ramsay
- Narrated by: Gordon Ramsay
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
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This is Gordon Ramsay's autobiography, the first time he has told the full story of how he became the world's most famous and infamous chef....
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Do wish it was unabridged though. . .
- By Tiffini on 04-16-10
By: Gordon Ramsay
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Your Table Is Ready
- Tales of a New York City Maître D'
- By: Michael Cecchi-Azzolina
- Narrated by: Michael Cecchi-Azzolina
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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A front-of-the-house Kitchen Confidential from a career maître d’hotel who manned the front of the room in New York City's hottest and most in-demand restaurants....
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Accurately crass and heart felt
- By Amazon Customer on 01-10-23
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Food: A Love Story
- By: Jim Gaffigan
- Narrated by: Jim Gaffigan
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Haven't We Heard All of This Before?
- By Joel on 11-19-14
By: Jim Gaffigan
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Why I Cook
- By: Tom Colicchio
- Narrated by: Will Damron, Tom Colicchio
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
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Get an unprecedented look inside the mind and kitchen of America’s top chef in this memoir and cookbook by Tom Colicchio, the multiple-James Beard and Emmy Award-winning chef, restaurateur, and television personality.
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Good story short on details, padded with recipes
- By S. Mahon on 12-13-24
By: Tom Colicchio
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In the Weeds
- Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain
- By: Tom Vitale
- Narrated by: Tom Vitale
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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Anthony Bourdain's long-time director and producer takes listeners behind the scenes to reveal the insanity of filming television in some of the most volatile places in the world and what it was like to work with a legend....
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Even more than I expected
- By DA1234 on 11-25-21
By: Tom Vitale
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A Season for That
- Lost and Found in the Other Southern France
- By: Steve Hoffman
- Narrated by: Steve Hoffman
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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In this poignant, delicious memoir, American tax preparer and food writer Steve Hoffman tells the story of how he and his family move to the French countryside, where the locals upend everything he knows about food, wine, and learning how to belong.
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A gift of memories from the south of France
- By Careful shopper on 10-09-24
By: Steve Hoffman
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Enough Already
- Learning to Love the Way I Am Today
- By: Valerie Bertinelli
- Narrated by: Valerie Bertinelli
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
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Beloved actress, Food Network personality, and New York Times bestselling author Valerie Bertinelli reflects on life at sixty and beyond....
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Added politics opinion not relevant to story. Wish I could get credit for. Did not chose this for a political opinion.
- By jaci o on 01-18-22
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Cork Dork
- A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste
- By: Bianca Bosker
- Narrated by: Bianca Bosker
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
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Professional journalist and amateur drinker Bianca Bosker didn’t know much about wine - until she discovered an alternate universe where taste reigns supreme, a world of elite sommeliers who dedicate their lives to the pursuit of flavor....
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Interesting but not educational
- By Blake Brasher on 10-14-17
By: Bianca Bosker
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A Waiter in Paris
- Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City
- By: Edward Chisholm
- Narrated by: Tristam Summers
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
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An evocative portrait of the underbelly of contemporary Paris as seen through the eyes of a young waiter scraping out a living in the City of Light....
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Wonderful read
- By Katelin on 10-11-23
By: Edward Chisholm
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Finding Freedom
- A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch
- By: Erin French
- Narrated by: Erin French
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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Long before The Lost Kitchen became a world dining destination with every seating filled the day the reservation book opens each spring, Erin French was a girl roaming barefoot on a 25-acre farm, a teenager falling in love with food while working the line at her dad’s diner....
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Ramblings of a narcissist
- By Ellen Satterthwaite-Phillips on 06-21-21
By: Erin French
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Save Me the Plums
- My Gourmet Memoir
- By: Ruth Reichl
- Narrated by: Ruth Reichl
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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When Condé Nast offered Ruth Reichl the top position at America’s oldest epicurean magazine, she declined. She was a writer, not a manager, and had no inclination to be anyone’s boss. Yet Reichl had been reading Gourmet since she was eight; it had inspired her career....
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Great book, shame there wasn't a recipe PDF
- By Kathleen on 05-14-19
By: Ruth Reichl
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From Scratch
- A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home
- By: Tembi Locke
- Narrated by: Tembi Locke
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
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A poignant and transporting cross-cultural love story set against the lush backdrop of the Sicilian countryside, where one woman discovers the healing powers of food, family, and unexpected grace in her darkest hour....
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Loved it.
- By Michael on 05-11-19
By: Tembi Locke
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Yes, Chef
- A Memoir
- By: Marcus Samuelsson
- Narrated by: Marcus Samuelsson
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
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It begins with a simple ritual: Every Saturday afternoon, a boy who loves to cook walks to his grandmother’s house and helps her prepare a roast chicken for dinner....
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A fun and inspiring civics lesson
- By loix on 06-27-12
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Eat a Peach
- A Memoir
- By: David Chang, Gabe Ulla
- Narrated by: David Chang
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
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From the chef behind Momofuku and star of Netflix’s Ugly Delicious—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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So many threads coming into a wonderful tapstery.
- By Suzie on 09-12-20
By: David Chang, and others
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Bourdain
- The Definitive Oral Biography
- By: Laurie Woolever
- Narrated by: Laurie Woolever, Christopher Bourdain, José Andrés, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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An unprecedented behind-the-scenes view into the life of Anthony Bourdain from the people who knew him best....
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After listening to the bio of AB…
- By GwP on 09-30-21
By: Laurie Woolever
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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
- Unabridged
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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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Touching, Deep, Surprising, and Inspiring
- By Aishwaryame on 08-18-16
By: Padma Lakshmi
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The French Ingredient
- Making a Life in Paris One Lesson at a Time: A Memoir
- By: Jane Bertch
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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When Jane Bertch was seventeen, her mother took her on a graduation trip to Paris. Thrilled to use her high school French, Jane found her halting attempts greeted with withering condescension by every waiter and shopkeeper she encountered....
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Loved it until the end
- By Marcia on 06-26-24
By: Jane Bertch
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The Apprentice
- My Life in the Kitchen
- By: Jacques Pépin
- Narrated by: Jacques Pépin, Michel Chevalier
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
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The Apprentice is the poignant and sometimes funny tale of a boy's coming of age. Beyond that, it is the story of America's culinary awakening and the transformation of food from an afterthought to a national preoccupation....
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Jacques Pépin never has disappointed
- By Peter on 10-03-20
By: Jacques Pépin
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32 Yolks
- From My Mother's Table to Working the Line
- By: Eric Ripert, Veronica Chambers
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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In an industry where celebrity chefs are known as much for their salty talk and quick tempers as their food, Eric Ripert stands out....
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Every aspiring cook needs to read this
- By PatrickV on 07-01-16
By: Eric Ripert, and others
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Blood, Bones & Butter
- The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
- By: Gabrielle Hamilton
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Hamilton
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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Before Gabrielle Hamilton opened her acclaimed New York restaurant Prune, she spent 20 fierce, hard-living years trying to find purpose and meaning in her life. Above all she sought family, particularly the thrill and the magnificence of the one from her childhood....
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A Little Prickly--But Yummy
- By Mel on 03-11-12
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Notes from a Young Black Chef
- A Memoir
- By: Kwame Onwuachi, Joshua David Stein
- Narrated by: Kwame Onwuachi
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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By the time he was 27 years old, Kwame Onwuachi had opened - and closed - one of the most talked-about restaurants in America. In this inspiring memoir about the intersection of race, fame, and food, he shares the remarkable story of his culinary coming-of-age....
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DC should be proud to have Chef Kwame
- By Jesse Wetzel on 04-26-19
By: Kwame Onwuachi, and others
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Down and Out in Paradise
- The Life of Anthony Bourdain
- By: Charles Leerhsen
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Anthony Bourdain’s death by suicide in June 2018 shocked people around the world. Bourdain seemed to have it all: an irresistible personality, a dream job, a beautiful family, and international fame. The reality, though, was more complicated than it seemed....
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Distasteful cash grab by the author
- By Daniel Hills on 10-13-22
By: Charles Leerhsen