num_pages: 303
description: Julie Powell thought cooking her way through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking was the craziest thing she'd ever do--until she embarked on the voyage recounted in her new memoir CLEAVING.Her marriage challenged by an insane irresistible love affair Julie decides to leave town and immerse herself in a new obsession: butchery. She finds her way to Fleischer's a butcher shop where she buries herself in the details of food. She learns how to break down a side of beef and French a rack of ribs--tough physical work that only sometimes distracts her from thoughts of afternoon trysts.The camaraderie at Fleischer's leads Julie to search out fellow butchers around the world--from South America to Europe to Africa. At the end of her odyssey she has learned a new art and perhaps even mastered her unruly heart.
language: English
title: Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession
publisher: Little, Brown and Company