Cleaving
Subtitle: a story of marriage, meat and obsession
By: Julie Powell
Publisher: Clipper Large Print
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Rearsby
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781407409900
Subjects: Marriage; Women cooks; Biography; Cooks; Butchers; Meat cutting; Psychological aspects; Large type books; Fleisher's (Kingston, N.Y.)
Description: 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.
Notes: Originally published: London: Fig Tree, 2009.