Gwyneth Paltrow is in negotiations to star in the indie Blood, Bones & Butter, based on Gabrielle Hamilton’s 2011 foodie memoir, The Hollywood Reporter said.

Like Paltrow, Hamilton is something of a jack-of-all-trades. The owner and chef of New York's Prune restaurant also is a trained writer with an MFA from the University of Michigan.

The book chronicles Hamilton’s unconventional background -- she is the youngest of five siblings born to a French mother and an artist father who made the sets for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus -- as well as her unorthodox trajectory to becoming a chef.

RT Features’ Rodrigo Teixeira is producing alongside Anne Carey (Adventureland) and her producing partner Mindy Goldberg (Junebug). Teixeira is currently producing The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein with Sam Raimi’s Ghost House Pictures. The project is out to writers to adapt.

Blood, Bones & Butter is described as in a similar vein as Julie & Julia, the Meryl Streep starrer that became an unlikely box-office hit.

Paltrow, a cookbook author in her own right, is currently filming Iron Man 3.