Culinary Biography

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    • Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of America
    • By: Michael Ruhlman
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-00
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 655 ratings
    • In the ultimate food-lover's fantasy, journalist Michael Ruhlman dons chef's jacket and houndstooth-check pants to join the students...

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    • 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
    • Release date: 04-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • 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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    • A Memoir
    • By: Kwame Onwuachi, Joshua David Stein
    • Narrated by: Kwame Onwuachi
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,159 ratings
    • 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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    • 136 Recipes That Saved My Life
    • By: Ruth Reichl
    • Narrated by: Ruth Reichl
    • Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
    • As she struggled to process what had seemed unthinkable, Reichl Reichl turned to the one place that had always provided sanctuary: the kitchen....

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    • The Biography of America's Pioneer TV Showman Chef
    • By: Ronald Joseph Kule
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Before the heyday of the Food Network, there was Chef Tell - TV persona of Friedemann Paul Erhardt, America's first TV showman chef....

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    • And How It Got This Way
    • By: Paul Freedman
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • With an ambitious sweep over 200 years, Paul Freedman's compelling history shows that there actually is an American cuisine....

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    • Notes on Life, Love, and Food
    • By: Ann Hood
    • Narrated by: Nina Alvamar
    • Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • In this warm collection of personal essays and recipes, best-selling author Ann Hood nourishes both our bodies and our souls....

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    • A Writer in the Kitchen: A Memoir and Cookbook
    • By: Laurie Colwin
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
    • Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • From the humble hotplate of her one-room apartment to the crowded kitchens of bustling parties, Colwin regales us with tales of meals gone both magnificently well and disastrously wrong....

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    • The Life and Times of Lalo García
    • By: Laura Tillman
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • A chef’s gripping quest to reconcile his childhood experiences as a migrant farmworker with the rarefied world of fine dining....

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    • How A Few Simple Lessons Transformed Nine Culinary Novices into Fearless Home Cooks
    • By: Kathleen Flinn
    • Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 212 ratings
    • After graduating from Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, writer Kathleen Flinn returned with no idea what to do next, until one day at a supermarket she watched a woman loading her cart with ultraprocessed foods....

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    • A Chef’s Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness
    • By: Cat Cora
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • In Cooking as Fast as I Can, Cat Cora reveals, for the first time, coming-of-age experiences from early childhood sexual abuse to the realities of life as a lesbian in the Deep South....

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    • Tales and Traditions of Everyday Home Cooking in France
    • By: Susan Herrmann Loomis
    • Narrated by: Susan Herrmann Loomis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • In a French Kitchen is a delightful celebration of French life and the cooks who turn even the simplest meals into an occasion....

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    • The Remarkable People and Incredible Stories behind America's Favorite Dishes
    • By: David Page
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • What is American cuisine? What national menu do we share? What dishes have we chosen, how did they become "American", and how are they likely to evolve from here? In Food Americana, David Page answers all these questions and more....

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    • Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America
    • By: Mayukh Sen
    • Narrated by: Tovah Ott
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • Who’s really behind America’s appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from an electric new voice in food writing honors seven extraordinary women, all immigrants, who left an indelible mark on the way Americans eat today....

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    • I Shot for the Stars, but Hit Bottom
    • By: Paul Cook
    • Narrated by: Paul Cook
    • Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 08-19-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • From the outside, Paul Cook had everything going for him. He was young, had a successful career in radio, a lovely wife, and a sweet family. Yet, one night he found himself in a near-catatonic overdose caused by ingesting an abundance of ketamine....

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    • How I Found Happiness with a Partner I'll Never Understand
    • By: Michaele Weissman
    • Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Experience a beautiful, humorous, universal love story with this memoir about learning to live with another human being and how every relationship is a mystery—and a miracle....

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    • Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and the Meaning of Life
    • By: Peter Gethers
    • Narrated by: Peter Gethers
    • Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Peter Gethers wants to give his aging mother a very personal and perhaps final gift: a spectacular feast featuring all her favorite dishes. The problem is, he doesn't really know how to cook....

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    • By: Pauline Parry
    • Narrated by: Rosalind Ashford
    • Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-23
    • Language: English
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    • Every juicy detail of Pauline’s relationship with Dennis and every bite of the cuisine Parry learns to master is chronicled in her debut memoir and cookbook, My Culinary Love Story, a story that takes the listener from one English Christmas to the next....

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    • A Restaurateur's Story of Passion, Pain, and Pasta
    • By: Pino Luongo, Andrew Friedman
    • Narrated by: Roberto Benfenati
    • Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Everyone has an opinion about Pino Luongo. To Tony Bourdain, he was the notorious Pino Noir, the shadowy kingpin of a restaurant empire....

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