Los Angeles Times Cookbook Hot List

1. “Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home” by Julia Child and Jacques Pepin (Alfred Knopf, $40). A spirited kitchen conversation between two great cooks.

Last Week: 1

Weeks on List: 11

2. “The French Laundry Cookbook” by Thomas Keller (Artisan, $50). The restaurant showpiece cookbook of the year?

Last Week: 2

Weeks on List: 5

3. “The Low-Carb Cookbook” by Fran McCullough (Hyperion, $23.95). Recipes for the new diet that’s all the rage.

Last Week: 3

Weeks on List: 11

4. “The Italian Country Table” by Lynne Rossetto Kasper (Scribner, $35). Home cooking from all over Italy.

Last Week: 5

Weeks on List: 6

5. “The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook” by Ina Garten (Clarkson Potter, $32.50). Recipes from the specialty food store of the same name in the Hamptons.

Last Week: 6

Weeks on List: 33

6. “Chez Panisse Cafe Cookbook” by Alice Waters (HarperCollins, $34). The Chez Panisse cookbook everyone has been waiting for.

Last Week: 4

Weeks on List: 13

7. “Every Day’s a Party” by Emeril Lagasse (William Morrow, $25). From Mardi Gras to New Year’s Eve, Emeril’s one partying dude.

Last Week: 7

Weeks on List: 11

8. “The New Joy of Cooking” by Irma Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker and Ethan Becker (Scribner, $30). The updated edition of the American cooking bible.

Last Week: 8

Weeks on List: 12

9. “Blue Ginger” by Ming Tsai (Clarkson Potter, $32.50). East-West cooking from the popular Food Network personality.

Last Week: 9

Weeks on List: 3

10. “The Oxford Companion to Food” by Alan Davidson (Oxford University Press, $60). This year’s must-have for the serious foodie.

Last Week: --

Weeks on List: 1

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