A Meat Obsession

Hosted by Evan Kleiman Feb. 20, 2010 Food & Drink

Julie Powell is the author of Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat and Obsession. It's her second book after writing Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously.

She worked as a butcher at Fleisher's in Kingston, NY.

Music break: Peter Gunn Mambo by Jack Gostanzo

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Host:

Evan Kleiman

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Jennifer Ferro, Harriet Ells

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