L.A. Times Cookbook Hotlist

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

*--* Last Week Weeks on List 1 “The Healthy Kitchen” by Andrew Weil 1 5 and Rosie Daley (Knopf, $24.95). Healthy recipes from a doctor and Oprah’s former chef 2 “I’m Just Here for the Food” by Alton 2 3 Brown (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, $32.50). A hip textbook from another Food Network personality 3 “Dr. Atkins’ New Diet Revolution” by 4 7 Robert C. Atkins (Avon Books, $7.99). A revised how-to from the diet guru 4 “Lidia’s Italian-American Kitchen” by 3 21 Lidia Bastianich (Knopf, $35). Recipes from merged cultures, based on the companion TV show 5 “Cooking Thin With Chef Kathleen” by 6 6 Kathleen Daelemans (Houghton Mifflin, $27). She lost weight, you can too 6 “How to Be a Domestic Goddess” by 9 21 Nigella Lawson (Hyperion, $35). Cookies, cupcakes and pies for the goddess in you 7 “Kitchen Confidential” by Anthony 10 90 Bourdain (Ecco Press, $14 ). Confessions of cooking’s bad boy 8 “Weight Watchers New Complete Cookbook” 7 36 (Hungry Minds, $19.95). More than 500 recipes for the famous diet plan 9 “Weight Watchers Simply the Best: 250 8 14 Prizewinning Family Recipes” (Hungry Minds, $17.95). Favorites to make for your family 10 “Fast Food Nation” by Eric Schlosser 5 54 (HarperCollins, $13.95). A condemnation of the national pastime, now in paperback

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