Food Science

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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 9,332 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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    • 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 193 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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    • 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 2,026 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 337 ratings
    • The Art of Fermentation is the most comprehensive guide to do-it-yourself home fermentation ever published....

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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 181 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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    • 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 221 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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    • 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 13 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 1,559 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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    • 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 306 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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    • 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 132 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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    • GMOs and the Future of the American Diet
    • By: McKay Jenkins
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • Are GMOs really that bad? A prominent environmental journalist takes a fresh look at what they actually mean for our food system and for us....

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    • The New Science of Eating
    • By: Charles Spence
    • Narrated by: John Sackville
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • Oxford professor Charles Spence shows how our senses link up in the most extraordinary ways and reveals the importance of all the off-the-plate elements of a meal....

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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 1,098 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 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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    • 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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    • Following Flavor from Ground to Glass
    • By: Alice Feiring, Pascaline Lepeltier
    • Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
    • Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • Still drinking Cabernet after that one bottle you liked five years ago? It can be overwhelming if not intimidating to branch out from your go-to grape....

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    • How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health
    • By: David R. Montgomery, Anne Biklé
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • David R. Montgomery and Anne Bikle take us far beyond the well-worn adage to deliver a new truth: the roots of good health start on farms. What Your Food Ate marshals evidence to illustrate how the health of the soil ripples through to that of crops, livestock, and ultimately us....

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    • The Science Behind Our Relationship with Food
    • By: Rachel Herz PhD
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • Why You Eat What You Eat examines the sensory, psychological, neuroscientific, and physiological factors that influence our eating habits....

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    • A Distiller's Journey into the Flavor of Place
    • By: Rob Arnold
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • In this book, Rob Arnold reveals how innovative whiskey producers are recapturing a sense of place to create distinctive, nuanced flavors. He takes listeners on a world tour of whiskey and the science of flavor....

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