Los Angeles Times Cookbook Hot List
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1. “How To Cook Everything” by Mark Bittman (MacMillan, $25). A fresh approach to the cooking encyclopedia, with more than 1,500 recipes.
Last Week: 3
Weeks on List: 22
2. “Kitchen Sessions With Charlie Trotter” by Charlie Trotter (Ten Speed Press, $29.95). Companion volume to Trotter’s TV show focuses on preparing fine cuisine at home.
Last Week: 7
Weeks on List: 3
3. “The Pie and Pastry Bible” by Rose Levy Beranbaum (Scribner, $35). Another masterwork from America’s most obsessive cookbook writer.
Last Week: 2
Weeks on List: 16
4. “Soup: A Way of Life” by Barbara Kafka (Artisan, $35). All soups, all the time.
Last Week: 1
Weeks on List: 16
5. “Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone” by Deborah Madison (Broadway Books, $40). Vegetarian cookbook with 1,400 recipes and sections on ingredients and cooking methods.
Last Week: 5
Weeks on List: 55
6. “Seductions of Rice” by Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Daguid (Artisan, $35). The world in a grain of rice.
Last Week: 4
Weeks on List: 11
7. “Emeril’s TV Dinners” by Emeril Lagasse, Marcelle Bienvenue, Felicia Willett and Brian Smale (William Morrow, $25). The “bam” of that N’Awlins man.
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Weeks on List: 16
8. “Drizzle of Honey” by David M. Gitlitz and Linda Kay Davidson (St. Martins Press, $29.95). Lives and recipes of Spain’s secret Jews during the Inquisition.
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Weeks on List: 1
9. “The Man Who Ate Everything” by Jeffrey Steingarten (Knopf, paperback, $14). Vogue columnist’s collection of 40 essays.
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Weeks on List: 6
10. “Caprial’s Soups & Sandwiches” by Caprial Pence (Ten Speed Press, paperback, $14.95). Lunch fare with a minimum of effort.
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Weeks on List: 1
Rankings are based on a Times poll of national cookbook and independent booksellers.
