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Best-selling author Julie Powell documenting her efforts to prepare all the recipes for Julia Child’s Master the Art of French Cooking, which later inspired the film Julie & Julia died at her New York home on October 26. She was 49 years old.
her death was confirmed new york times Her husband, Eric Powell, said the cause was cardiac arrest.
Powell’s book was made into a 2009 film directed by Nora Ephron, starring Meryl Streep as Julia Child and Amy Adams as Powell herself.
CNN reached out to influential food writers and publishers for comment.
“Julie & Julia” started as a blog on Salon.com. Looking for a way out of the drudgery of life as a temp in downtown Manhattan in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, Powell embarked on a home-cooking journey to pull off all 524 recipes. She spent a year in her tiny kitchen in Astoria, Queens, on Child’s classic French cookbook.
The result was the publication of the memoir Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, One Tiny Apartment Kitchen. This blog comes after garnering a devoted following who eagerly share Powell’s successes and failures in his efforts to prepare challenging dishes such as Boeuf his Bourguignon and Boeuf his Bourguignon. Canard en Croûte deboned duck.
Since the success of that best-selling book, Powell went on to write another book in 2009, Cleaving: a Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession.
Most recently, she returned to the salon earlier this year for a series of articles. commentary work About the Food Network series “The Julia Child Challenge”.
“She really made her way” Salon Senior Writer Mary Elizabeth Williams, who previously managed Open Salon, the platform that hosted Powell’s blog, said of the writer: “We were lucky enough to be a conduit.”
At the center of Powell’s blog, and later the critically acclaimed film based on it, was the author’s admiration for Julia Child’s cooking and way of life.
“Julia has taught me what it takes to find my way in the world. It’s not what I thought it would be,” Powell wrote. “I thought it was everything—I don’t know, confidence, will, luck. Those are all good things to have, no doubt. But these things There is something else to grow.It’s a joy.”