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 4 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 Brown (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, $32.50). A hip textbook from another Food Network personality 3 “Lidia’s Italian-American Kitchen” by 4 20 Lidia Bastianich (Knopf, $35). Recipes from merged cultures, based on the companion TV show 4 “Dr. Atkins’ New Diet Revolution” by 2 6 Robert C. Atkins (Avon Books, $7.99). A revised how-to from the diet guru 5 “Fast Food Nation” by Eric Schlosser 9 53 (HarperCollins, $13.95). A condemnation of the national pastime, now in paperback 6 “Cooking Thin With Chef Kathleen” by 3 5 Kathleen Daelemans (Houghton Mifflin, $27). She lost weight, you can too 7 “Weight Watchers New Complete Cookbook” 5 35 (Hungry Minds, $19.95). More than 500 recipes for the famous diet plan 8 “Weight Watchers Simply the Best: 250 8 13 Prizewinning Family Recipes” (Hungry Minds, $17.95). Favorites to make for your family 9 “How to Be a Domestic Goddess” by 6 20 Nigella Lawson (Hyperion, $35). Cookies, cupcakes and pies for the goddess in you 10 “Kitchen Confidential” by Anthony -- 89 Bourdain (Ecco Press, $14 ). Confessions of cooking’s bad boy

*--*