Los Angeles Times Cookbook Hot List

1. “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: 48

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

Last Week: 2

Weeks on list: 35

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: 5

Weeks on list: 3

4. “Eat More, Weigh Less” by Dean Ornish (Harper Paperback, $6.99). Low-fat cooking advice from the well-known author.

Last Week: 4

Weeks on list: 3

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

Last Week: 3

Weeks on list: 9

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

Last Week: 9

Weeks on list: 7

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

Last Week: 10

Weeks on list: 14

8. “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: 7

Weeks on list: 111

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

Last Week: 6

Weeks on list: 15

10. “La Maison du Chocolat” by Robert Linxe (Rizzoli, $50). A great candy maker’s confections lovingly photographed.

Last Week: - -

Weeks on list: 1

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