Cleaving : a story of marriage, meat and obsession

Resource Information

The work Cleaving : a story of marriage, meat and obsession represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Audio, Nonmusical, Sounds, Music.

Label

Cleaving : a story of marriage, meat and obsession

Title remainder

a story of marriage, meat and obsession

Statement of responsibility

Julie Powell ; read by the author

Creator

• Powell, Julie

Subject

• Cooks -- New York (State) | New York -- Biography
• Fleisher's (Kingston, N.Y.)
• Meat cutting -- Psychological aspects
• Butchers -- New York (State) | Kingston -- Biography
• Talking books
• Women cooks -- New York (State) | New York -- Biography
• Powell, Julie

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

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

Cataloging source

VALP

Dewey number

641.5092

Form of composition

not applicable

Format of music

not applicable

Literary text for sound recordings

other

Music parts

not applicable

PerformerNote

Read by Julie Powell

Target audience

adult