Cleaving

I just finished Julie Powell's book Cleaving. Wow. Quite different from Julie & Julia, but no less entertaining. Although this book contains lots of recipes and discussion of food too, there is also a heaping helping of sex and an astonishingly frank account of a difficult phase of her marriage. Add to the mix the fact that she spent six months learning to be a butcher, and then travelled around the world in search of meat-related experiences, and you have a funny, poignant, engaging and fascinating read. I highly recommend it.