Title: Cleaving
Subtitle: a story of marriage, meat, and obsession
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.
Subjects: Butchers, Cooks, Psychological aspects of Meat cutting, Meat cutting, Women cooks, Fleisher's (Kingston, N.Y.), Marriage, Nonfiction, Psychological aspects, Biography & Autobiography, Biography, Cooks, biography, New york (n.y.), biography, Women, united states, biography, Butchers (Persons)
Places: New York (State), New York, New York (N.Y.), Kingston (N.Y.), Kingston
People: Julie Powell