You start cooking the potatoes on the stovetop, shingling them while basting the whole thing with butter. Once all the potatoes are layered, weigh down the potato cake and bake it until they are ...

Following the recent release of the film Julie & Julia, directed by Nora Ephron and starring Meryl Streep as Child, Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Knopf) shot to No. 1 on The New York Times ...