Los Angeles Times Cookbook Hot List

1. “Julia’s Kitchen Wisdom” by Julia Child (Knopf, $19.95). Distilling 50 years of great cookbooks.

Last Week: 1

Weeks on List: 6

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

Last Week: 2

Weeks on List: 32

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

Last Week: 5

Weeks on List: 45

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

Last Week: 3

Weeks on List: 11

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

Last Week: 4

Weeks on List: 4

6. “How to Cook Everything” by Mark Bittman (Hungry Minds, $25). A fresh approach to the cooking encyclopedia, with more than 1,500 recipes.

Last Week: 9

Weeks on List: 108

7. “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: 7

Weeks on List: 43

8. “The Martha Stewart Living Cookbook” (Clarkson Potter, $35). More than 1,000 recipes collected from the magazine.

Last Week: 6

Weeks on List: 12

9. “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: 8

Weeks on List: 62

10. “Simple to Spectacular” by Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Mark Bittman (Broadway Books, $40). Taking the same idea in different directions.

Last Week: 10

Weeks on List: 2

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