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...Meryl Streep. By the summer of 2008, Powell was firmly ensconced in a new career as a successful writer and celebrity foodie. But Powell's offscreen life didn't follow the script. With her marriage falling apart, she took a sabbatical from her New York City home to learn the advanced skills and techniques of cutting meat. The result is her second book, Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession. Powell talked to TIME about the delicate art of butchery during crisis. (Watch a video with Julie Powell on how to butcher meat...
...started learning butchery at a difficult point in your marriage. I am the kind of person who, in a period of crisis, tends to make my life crazier than it was already. The Julie & Julia project was all about that - a way for me to bring some structure to my life after I'd freaked out about turning 30. When I come to the point that is depicted in Cleaving, this difficult period in my marriage, I needed something to take my focus physically, mentally. Learning this art of butchery and spending hours at the shop was what I needed...
...Wong admits that she herself has had to learn much over the years - in the beginning she could only tell Nepalis apart from other South Asians because they were "Tibetan-looking." Now, she relishes South Asian cooking, swathes herself in flashy Indian scarves and is sought after by the elders of a host of ethnic-minority associations. Wong runs clinics with poor South Asian households, instructing them on everything from how to fill out official forms to how to stand up to bullying police officers ("Speak in a British accent," she advises). She has lectured at police academies "that...
...high school classmate she hadn't talked to in 30 years. He had read her brother's obituary in the local paper and wanted to give his condolences. It was through this overture on Facebook that this man, who had once been a close family friend, came to learn that my mom's parents had also recently passed away. He responded by explaining how he felt when his mother died and how he had struggled to recover from the loss. "I was so glad we got reconnected," my mom said. "It brought me back to a place that was really...
...last two classes have been the most talented recruiting classes we’ve seen, ever,” Lin said. “And they’ve been really humble. They’re eager to learn and they don’t think they know it all…They respect the coaches and just come ready to play every...