Cleaving

Julie Powell thought cooking her way through Julia Childs Mastering the Artof French Cooking was the craziest thing shed ever dountil she embarked onthe voyage ... » 

Julie Powell thought cooking her way through Julia Childs Mastering the Artof French Cooking was the craziest thing shed ever dountil she embarked onthe voyage recounted in her new memoir CLEAVING. Her marriage challenged by aninsane irresistible love affair Julie decides to leave town and immerseherself in a new obsession butchery. She finds her way to Fleischers abutcher shop where she buries herself in the details of food. She learns how tobreak down a side of beef and French a rack of ribstough physical work thatonly sometimes distracts her from thoughts of afternoon trysts. The camaraderieat Fleischers leads Julie to search out fellow butchers around the worldfromSouth America to Europe to Africa. At the end of her odyssey she has learned anew art and perhaps even mastered her unruly heart. «