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 3 and Rosie Daley (Knopf, $24.95). Healthy recipes from a doctor and Oprah’s former chef 2 “Dr. Atkins’ New Diet Revolution” by 2 5 Robert C. Atkins (Avon Books, $7.99). A revised how-to from the diet guru 3 “Cooking Thin With Chef Kathleen” by 9 4 Kathleen Daelemans (Houghton Mifflin, $27). She lost weight, you can too 4 “Lidia’s Italian-American Kitchen” by 4 19 Lidia Bastianich (Knopf, $35). Recipes from merged cultures, based on the companion TV show 5 “Weight Watchers New Complete Cookbook” 3 34 (Hungry Minds, $19.95). More than 500 recipes for the famous diet plan 6 “How to Be a Domestic Goddess” by 6 19 Nigella Lawson (Hyperion, $35). Cookies, cupcakes and pies for the goddess in you 7 “Salt: A World History” by Mark -- 8 Kurlansky (Walker and Co., $28). How one rock has shaped civilization 8 “Weight Watchers Simply the Best: 250 8 12 Prizewinning Family Recipes” (Hungry Minds, $17.95). Favorites to make for your family 9 “Fast Food Nation” by Eric Schlosser 10 52 (HarperCollins, $13.95). A condemnation of the national pastime, now in paperback 10 “How to Eat” by Nigella Lawson (John -- 9 Wiley, $35). Common-sense advice

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