L.A. Times Cookbook Hotlist

1.’Fast Food Nation” by Eric Schlosser (Houghton Mifflin, $25). A condemnation of the national pastime.

Last week: 2

Weeks on list: 3

2.’The Cake Mix Doctor” by Anne Byrn (Workman, $14.95). How to turn a box cake into something special.

Last week: 1

Weeks on list: 52

3.’Sugar Busters!” by H. Leighton Stewart, Morrison C. Bethea, Sam S. Andrews and Luis A. Balart (Ballantine Books, $23.95). Lose Weight the New Orleans way.

Last week: 3

Weeks on list: 7

4.’Kitchen Confidential” by Anthony Bourdain (Bloomsbury Publishing, $24.95). Life in the culinary trenches.

Last week: 4

Weeks on list: 39

5.’Mexico One Plate at a Time” by Rick Bayless (Scribner, $35). The companion piece to the master instructor’s PBS series.

Last week: 7

Weeks on list: 18

6.’The Naked Chef” by Jamie Oliver (Hyperion, $34.95). Britain’s boy chef has a TV show and a cookbook.

Last week: --

Weeks on list: 8

7.’Weight Watchers New Complete Cookbook” (Hungry Minds, $16.95). More than 500 recipes for the famous diet plan.

Last week: 9

Weeks on list: 3

8.’The New Joy of Cooking” by Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker and Ethan Becker (Scribner, $35). The updated version of the cooking classic.

Last week: 3

Weeks on list: 49

9.’Staff Meals at Chanterelle” by David Waltuck and Melicia Phillips (Workman Publishing, $29.95). What do chefs really eat?

Last week: --

Weeks on list: 1

10.’Eat More, Weigh Less” by Dean Ornish (Harper Paperback, $6.99). Low-fat cooking advice from

Last week: 5

Weeks on list: 7

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