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L.A. Times Cookbook Hotlist

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Rankings are based on a Times poll of national

and independent cookbook sellers.

*--* Last Week Weeks on List 1 “Dr. Atkins’ New Diet Revolution” by 1 18 Robert C. Atkins (Avon Books, $7.99). A revised how-to from the diet guru 2 “Cooking Thin With Chef Kathleen” by 5 17 Kathleen Daelemans (Houghton Mifflin, $27). She lost weight, you can too 3 “I’m Just Here for the Food” by Alton 4 15 Brown (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, $32.50). A hip textbook from another Food Network personality 4 “Fast Food Nation” by Eric Schlosser 3 63 (HarperCollins, $13.95). A condemnation of the national pastime 5 “The Healthy Kitchen” by Andrew Weil 2 18 and Rosie Daley (Knopf, $24.95). Healthy recipes from a doctor and Oprah’s former chef 6 “Lidia’s Italian-American Kitchen” by -- 27 Lidia Bastianich (Knopf, $35). Recipes from merged cultures, based on the companion TV show 7 “How to Eat” by Nigella Lawson (John 10 12 Wiley, $35). Common-sense advice 8 “How to Be a Domestic Goddess” by 8 27 Nigella Lawson (Hyperion, $35). Cookies, cupcakes and pies for the goddess in you 9 “The New Joy of Cooking” by Irma S. -- 59 Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker and Ethan Becker (Scribner, $35). The updated version of the cooking classic 10 “30-Minute Meals” by Rachael Ray (Lake 6 6 Isle Press, $14.95). The book from TV’s half-hour chef

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