Another popular tool in the kitchen is the instant pot. Instant pots are essentially the upgraded crock pots, designed to pressure cook or slow cook a meal in a fraction of the time. Instant pots can be remarkably useful for anyone with a busy or on-the-go schedule. This cookbook will teach you how to cook everything in a shortened time period.

Learning how to use a new tool can be challenging, but an audiobook is an ideal way to ease into new cooking methods with a new appliance. Listening to instructions, tips, and recipes in audiohack form allows novice cooks to practice in real time and follow along with the narrator as they go through the steps or recipes.

The Instant Pot Mini Cookbook is a must-listen for anyone with an instant pot or looking to invest in one. It will outline all the steps, tricks, and tips you need to get the most out of this impressive kitchen gadget, regardless if you are a first time user or experienced home cook. Whether you're poaching, cooking a whole chicken, or making one pot fried rice.

Another one of the biggest trends during quarantine was the popularity of bread making. People all over the country who had never even attempted to bake were suddenly taking up the skill, trying out everything from simple pizza dough to sourdough masterpieces.

Bread is one of the simplest baked goods to learn how to make, and a good place to start for first time bakers looking to test their skills in a home kitchen environment. Bread making is a good way for listeners to dive into baking, but also allows ample room for growth.

How to Bake Bread: The Beginner Guide is an easy-to-follow guide that will lead beginner cooks through the steps needed to become a confident bread baker. Making bread is a fun activity for all ages, and the resulting bread supply will also help cut costs at the grocery store or bakery. One of the best cookbooks for bread making, it covers all the building blocks of baking, and is an excellent reference book to listen along with.

One of the most loved cuisine types across Canada and North America is barbeque. Synonymous with summer evenings, cottaging, or backyard bashes, barbecuing is a skill that varies greatly. Rodney Scott offers his James Beard Award-winning skills to this barbeque mastery audiobook.

There are few things more coveted in the world of cooking than perfect barbecue. Meat lovers everywhere search for new tips, tricks, and recipes to find that ultimate authentic barbeque taste. A native of South Carolina, Rodney Scott not only has a rich history in American barbeque cuisine, but translates his expertise into recipes and practices everyone from experts to novices can tackle.

Fire up the grill, turn on your audio device, and let Scott talk you through mastering the best of what authentic Southern US barbeque has to offer. From braising to grilling, New York strip steak to the humble chicken breast, Scott covers it all. His clear instructions are infused with passion and flavour that showcase his joy of cooking, for a well-rounded listen that will have you ready to try all his BBQ skills.

Matty Matheson is full of life and character, and his long-awaited self-titled cookbook is no exception. This is the perfect choice for devoted fans and new followers alike looking for a food-based listen that is bursting with energy, spirit and good food.

This audio cookbook is a mixture of autobiographical tales, love stories to food, and straightforward recipes. Matheson speaks with a passion and drive that is evident in both his tone and his words, a passion that has been seen and felt in his food for years. He brings this same flavour to a cookbook that is sure to inspire even the most novice cooks to give his recipes a try.

This book is also distinctly Canadian. Matheson follows his journey with food across P.E.I. and cooking school Toronto, where he has worked and built a strong following. His recipes reflect this, with homey Canadian recipes like rappie pie and gumbo, which he sets alongside his restaurant favourites pigtail tacos and the P&L Burger. His connection to food is entwined with his connection to the country, making it the perfect cookbook for Canadian listeners looking to dive headfirst into becoming a better cook.

Another famed chef and food writer full of soul and flavour is Marcus Samuelsson. His passion and love for food is palpable, and he funnels all of that into Our Harlem, a love story to the food and culture that shaped him and his best dishes. It is a rich and dynamic listen on food and cooking that will fill you with a love of food, and the inspiration to test your own chef skills.

Samuelsson structures his audiobook in a conversational style, inviting a different guest to join him each day to discuss food, drink, cook, and share their love of cuisine. He narrates with a friendly, familiar tone that helps listeners feel like they are sitting down around a table with friends.

Not only is this a great cookbook to inspire the chef in all of us, but the Our Harlem audiobook also comes with bonus audio that includes favourite recipes from The Red Rooster Cookbook, so listeners can try their hand at some of Samuelsson’s best dishes such as brown butter biscuits, Ethiopian spice-crusted lamb or sweet potato cream, which are sure to impress.