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 “Al Roker’s Big, Bad Book of Barbecue” 1 3 by Al Roker (Scribner, $27.95). TV weatherman turns barbecue king 2 “The Healthy Kitchen” by Andrew Weil 3 12 and Rosie Daley (Knopf, $24.95). Healthy recipes from a doctor and Oprah’s former chef 3 “I’m Just Here for the Food” by Alton 4 9 Brown (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, $32.50). A hip textbook from another Food Network personality 4 “Weber’s Big Book of Grilling” by Jamie 2 12 Purviance and Sandra McRae (Chronicle, $22.95). Who knows barbecuing better? 5 “Dr. Atkins’ New Diet Revolution” by 5 14 Robert C. Atkins (Avon Books, $7.99). A revised how-to from the diet guru 6 “Lidia’s Italian-American Kitchen” by -- 25 Lidia Bastianich (Knopf, $35). Recipes from merged cultures, based on the companion TV show 7 “Cooking Thin With Chef Kathleen” by 9 13 Kathleen Daelemans (Houghton Mifflin, $27). She lost weight, you can too 8 “Restaurant Confidential” by Michael 10 2 Jacobson and Jayne Hurley (Workman, $12.95). Restaurant meals are fattening, from the Center for Science in the Public Interest 9 “Fast Food Nation” by Eric Schlosser 7 57 (HarperCollins, $13.95). A condemnation of the national pastime 10 “How to Grill” by Steven Raichlen 8 11 (Workman, $19.95). A picture-filled textbook for the barbecue-challenged

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