Los Angeles Times Cookbook Hot List

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May 13, 1998 12 AM PT

1. “Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone,” by Deborah Madison (Broadway Books, $40).

LAST WEEK: 1

WEEKS ON LIST: 15

2. “The New Making of a Cook,” by Madeleine Kamman (Morrow, $40).

LAST WEEK: 3

WEEKS ON LIST: 17

3. “Rao’s Cookbook,” By Frank Pellegrino (Random House, $40).

LAST WEEK: --

WEEKS ON LIST: 1

4. “CookWise,” by Shirley O. Corriher (Morrow, $28.50).

LAST WEEK: 7

WEEKS ON LIST: 18

5. “Diary of a Tuscan Chef,” by Cesare Casella and Eileen Daspin (Doubleday, $35).

LAST WEEK: --

WEEKS ON LIST: 1

6. “Cooking With the Two Fat Ladies,” by Jennifer Patterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright (Clarkson Potter, $25).

LAST WEEK: 2

WEEKS ON LIST: 17

7. “Joy of Cooking,” by Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker and Ethan Becker (Scribner, $30).

LAST WEEK: 6

WEEKS ON LIST: 18

8. “Bobby Flay’s from My Kitchen to Your Table,” by Bobby Flay and Joan Schwartz (Clarkson Potter, $32.50).

LAST WEEK: 10

WEEKS ON LIST: 2

9. “Aphrodite,” by Isabel Allende (HarperCollins, $26).

LAST WEEK: --

WEEKS ON LIST: 1

10. “Tender at the Bone,” by Ruth Reichl (Random House, $23).

LAST WEEK: 9

WEEKS ON LIST: 6

Rankings are based on a Times poll of national cookbook and independent booksellers.