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    • A Natural History of Four Meals
    • By: Michael Pollan
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 01-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,370 ratings
    • "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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    • Why We Can't Stop Eating Food That Isn't Food
    • By: Chris van Tulleken
    • Narrated by: Chris van Tulleken, Dr. Xand van Tulleken
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 393 ratings
    • The Omnivore's Dilemma meets Fast Food Nation from a global perspective in this game-changing look at the science, economics, and history of ultra-processed food and the industry's effect on our health and planet....

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    • Better Home Cooking Through Science
    • By: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 21 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 200 ratings
    • In hundreds of easy-to-make recipes, you will find out how to make foolproof Hollandaise sauce in just two minutes, how to transform one simple tomato sauce into a half dozen dishes, how to make the crispiest, creamiest potato casserole ever conceived, and much more....

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    • Recovering the Lost Wisdom of Eating Well
    • By: Mark Schatzker
    • Narrated by: Gibson Frazier
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 257 ratings
    • For the last fifty years, we have been fighting a losing war on food. We have cut fat, reduced carbs, eliminated sugar, and attempted every conceivable diet only to find that eighty-eight million American adults are prediabetic....

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    • The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
    • By: Eric Schlosser
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-01
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,035 ratings
    • To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar America. Though created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has...

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    • An In-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes from Around the World
    • By: Sandor Ellix Katz
    • Narrated by: Sean Crisden
    • Length: 20 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 04-29-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 342 ratings
    • The Art of Fermentation is the most comprehensive guide to do-it-yourself home fermentation ever published....

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    • Physics Meets Food, from Homemade to Haute Cuisine
    • By: Michael Brenner, Pia Sörensen, David Weitz
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Based on the popular Harvard University and edX course, Science and Cooking explores the scientific basis of why recipes work....

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    • The Science of Booze
    • By: Adam Rogers
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 05-27-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,568 ratings
    • A spirited narrative on the fascinating art and science of alcohol, sure to inspire cocktail party chats on making booze, tasting it, and its effects on our bodies and brains....

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    • The Everyday Chemistry of Cooking
    • By: Simon Quellen Field
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 187 ratings
    • When you're cooking, you're a chemist! Every time you follow or modify a recipe you are experimenting with acids and bases, emulsions and suspensions, gels and foams....

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    • How the Food Revolution Has Transformed Our Lives, Our Bodies, and Our World
    • By: Bee Wilson
    • Narrated by: Bee Wilson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • Food is one of life's great joys. So why has eating become such a source of anxiety and confusion? Bee Wilson shows that in two generations the world has undergone a massive shift from traditional, limited diets to more globalized ways of eating....

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    • Inside Silicon Valley’s Mission to Change What We Eat
    • By: Larissa Zimberoff
    • Narrated by: Larissa Zimberoff
    • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • Investigative reporter Larissa Zimberoff pokes holes in the marketing mania behind today’s changing food landscape and clearly shows the trade-offs of replacing real food with technology-driven approximations with news-breaking revelations....

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    • The Secret Science of Food and Dining
    • By: Nell McShane Wulfhart
    • Narrated by: Katie Schorr
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,099 ratings
    • Off Menu is a charming, fun-fact-filled deep dive into the little-known science of food and dining: why we eat what we eat, the nuances of our experience of taste and flavor, and the tiny, easy hacks and tweaks that, when mastered, can make a huge difference....

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    • How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World
    • By: Paul Shapiro, Yuval Noah Harari - foreword
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 157 ratings
    • Paul Shapiro gives you a front-row seat for the wild story of the race to create and commercialize cleaner, safer, sustainable meat - real meat - without the animals....

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    • Getting to the Bottom of Every Pint
    • By: John Holl
    • Narrated by: John Holl
    • Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 131 ratings
    • From an award-winning journalist and beer expert, a thoughtful and witty guide to understanding and enjoying beer....

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    • The Art and Science of What We Eat
    • By: John McQuaid
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 01-13-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Tasty explains the scientific research taking place on multiple fronts: how genes shape our tastes, how the mind assembles flavors from the five senses....

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    • How the Industrial Food System Is Changing Our Minds, Bodies, and Culture
    • By: Kristin Lawless
    • Narrated by: Jennywren Walker
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 06-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • In Formerly Known as Food, Kristin Lawless argues that, because of the degradation of our diet, our bodies are changing from the inside out. The billion-dollar food industry is reshaping our food preferences, altering our brains, and even affecting the expression of our genes....

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    • The Science of Our Most Neglected Sense
    • By: Bob Holmes
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • Can you describe how the flavor of halibut differs from red snapper? How Brie differs from cheddar? For most of us, unfortunately, the answer is: badly....

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    • The Science of Flavor and the Search for the Origins of Wine
    • By: Kevin Begos
    • Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • The characters in Tasting the Past include a young Swiss scientist who set out to decode the DNA of every single wine grape in the world; Middle Eastern researchers who seek to discover the wines that King David drank; and much more....

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