L.A. Times Cookbook Hotlist

1.’Fast Food Nation’ by Eric Schlosser (Houghton Mifflin, $25). A condemnation of the national pastime, now in paperback.

Last Week: 7

Weeks on List: 47

2.’Dr. Atkins’ New Diet Revolution’ by Robert C. Atkins (Avon Books, $7.99). A revised how-to from the diet guru.

Last Week: 1

Weeks on List: 7

3.’How to be a Domestic Goddess: Baking and the Art of Comfort Cooking’ by Nigella Lawson (Hyperion, $35). Cookies, cupcakes and pies to make you feel like one too.

Last Week: 5

Weeks on List: 14

4.’How to Eat’ by Nigella Lawson (John Wiley, $35). Common sense advice.

Last Week: 6

Weeks on List: 7

5.’Weight Watchers New Complete Cookbook’ (Hungry Minds, $19.95). More than 500 recipes for the famous diet plan.

Last Week: 4

Weeks on List: 29

6.’Salt: A World History’ by Mark Kurlansky (Walker and Co., $28). How one rock has shaped civilization.

Last Week: 2

Weeks on List: 5

7.’Kitchen Confidential’ by Anthony Bourdain (Ecco Press, $14 ). Confessions of cooking’s bad boy.

Last Week: 8

Weeks on List: 86

8.’Lidia’s Italian-American Kitchen’ by Lidia Bastianich (Knopf, $35). Recipes from merged cultures, based on the companion TV show.

Last Week: 3

Weeks on List: 15

9.’Weight Watchers Simply the Best: 250 Prizewinning Family Recipes’ (Hungry Minds, $17.95). Favorites to make for your family.

Last Week: 9

Weeks on List: 7

10.’Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook’ by Dawn J. Ranck, Phyllis Pellman Good and Cheryl Benner (Good Books, $13.95). Make many meals from the slow cooker.

Last Week: -

Weeks on List: 4

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Rankings are based on a Times poll of national and independent cookbook sellers.