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 7 and Rosie Daley (Knopf, $24.95). Healthy recipes from a doctor and Oprah’s former chef 2 “Cooking Thin With Chef Kathleen” by 3 8 Kathleen Daelemans (Houghton Mifflin, $27). She lost weight, you can too 3 “Dr. Atkins’ New Diet Revolution” by 5 9 Robert C. Atkins (Avon Books, $7.99). A revised how-to from the diet guru 4 “Lidia’s Italian-American Kitchen” by 4 23 Lidia Bastianich (Knopf, $35). Recipes from merged cultures, based on the companion TV show 5 “I’m Just Here for the Food” by Alton 2 5 Brown (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, $32.50). A hip textbook from another Food Network personality 6 “What Einstein Told His Cook” by Robert -- 1 L. Wolke (Norton, $25.95). A chemistry professor answers kitchen science questions 7 “Weight Watchers New Complete Cookbook” 7 38 (Hungry Minds, $19.95). More than 500 recipes for the famous diet plan 8 “Great Wine Made Simple” by Andrea -- 1 Immer (Broadway Books, $25). Straight talk from a master sommelier 9 “How to Be a Domestic Goddess” by 6 23 Nigella Lawson (Hyperion, $35). Cookies, cupcakes and pies for the goddess in you 10 “How to Eat” by Nigella Lawson (John -- 10 Wiley, $35). Common-sense advice

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