The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food runs 11 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Adam Gopnik (about 7.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 11 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 22 days |
| 1 hour / day | 11 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 8 days |
You'll finish in – by –
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What our data says
- At 11 hours, it runs longer than 78% of the 9,905 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Adam Gopnik
Adam Gopnik narrates 9 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 50 hours in all.
About as long, on the Social Science shelf
1,509 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food is an audiobook by Adam Gopnik: a 11-hour unabridged recording, read by Adam Gopnik, released October 25, 2011, on the Social Science shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 11 hrs
- Narrated by
- Adam Gopnik
- Released
- October 25, 2011
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Social Science
- ISBN
- 9781461847083
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food as an audiobook?
The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food runs 11 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.3 hours.
Is The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food?
The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food is narrated by Adam Gopnik.
Is The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.3 hours, saving 3.7 hours.