THE MAKING OF A CHEF Michael Ruhlman (Owl, $15, first published in 1997) Journalist Ruhlman immerses himself in the grueling curriculum at the famed Culinary Institute of America in this savory account.
BALLS Nanci Kincaid (Delta, $12.95, 1998) Tale of a young quarterback's rise to head college coach exposes the rarefied world of Southern college football.
ON SUNSET BOULEVARD: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BILLY WILDER Ed Sikov (Hyperion, $17.95, 1998) Author doggedly plows through the mountain of fact and fiction surrounding the brilliant Hollywood director-screenwriter.

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