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After having cooked her way through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking in Julie and Julia , what would Julie Powell do next? Learn to be a butcher.
In Cleaving she sets about this in fabulously funny and often grisly detail. She trains at 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 - and how to get on with her extraordinary new colleagues.
As she does so, she exposes with her butcher's knife the other side to her life, for Julie peels back the skin to reveal that she is in the throes of an insane, irresistible love affair that threatens to devastate her marriage. In this riveting memoir of love, marriage and meat, a voyage into the world of butchery becomes a metaphor for learning to stand on one's own two feet.
Praise for Julie and Julia -
'Sassy, quirky and disarmingly honest'
Marie Claire
'I savoured each dish with the same delight as the author'
The Times
'A gem of a book . . . hilarious and touching'
Glamour
Author Notes
Julie Anne Powell was an American blogger and writer. She was born on April 20, 1973, in Austen, Texas. She studied theater and creative writing at Amherst College, graduating in 1995
She is best known for her blog, Julie/Julia Project, in which she wrote about cooking one recipes a day for a year from the classic cookbook by Julia Child, Mastering the Art of French Cooking. A book was published in 2005 entitled, Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen. It was later adapted into a film, Julie & Julia, directed by Nora Ephron (2009). Her second book was Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession. In 2022, she wrote commentaries for Salon about the Food Network reality television show, The Julia Child Challenge.
Her awards included a Quill Award for Debut author of the year 2006 for, Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen; and 2 James Beard Awards for Magazine Feature with recipes in 2004, for the article, People and Places: Julia Knows Best, and in 2005, for the article, The Trouble with Blood: A Modern Chef Takes on the Challenge of Ancient Cooking.
Julie Powell died on October 26, 2022, at home from cardiac arrest. She was 49.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (2)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Powell flounders in her latest cooking-themed memoir. Trying to end an affair, the married Powell leaves town and seeks distraction in a butcher shop. She explores her obsessions with meat and with her lover-but listeners will quickly tune out. Her sarcastic inflections, flat tone, and nervous voice that worked reasonably well with Julie and Julia sound supercilious and affected here. The clunky performance cannot redeem the uninspired prose, and Powell-who compulsively cheats on her "saintly" husband-is difficult to empathize with. A Little, Brown hardcover. (Dec.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Booklist Review
The author of the charming, riveting, thrilling and successfully filmed Julie and Julia (2005), in which Powell recounted her year spent cooking all the recipes in Julia Child's classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking, has turned to butchery! As she relays in her new memoir, after her year with Julia, she apprenticed in a butcher shop in upstate New York and learned the trade from the inside out, from sinew to steak. Another prominent theme here is the stress placed on her marriage to the understanding, even noble Eric (as he was depicted in the previous memoir) by their mutual infidelities. It's a grim book. Powell's fans happily voyaged with her through Julia Child's cookbook, but taking the journey through her learning the art of butchery is another matter. Graphic, even gross, detail about breaking down a beef or pig carcass and about her adulterous sex life (Do we really want to hear about her phone sex with her lover?) blocks any sunshine from emerging from these pages. The previous book made foodies of us all, but this book may convince us that vegetarians have had the right idea all along.--Hooper, Brad Copyright 2010 Booklist