It’s Very Sad That Julie Powell The Food Writer Known for ‘Julie & Julia,’ Has Died At The Very Young Age of 49
Julie Powell, Food Writer Known for ‘Julie & Julia,’ Dies at 49
She attempted to cook every recipe in a classic Julia Child cookbook and documented the effort in a popular blog that became a best-selling book and a hit movie.
This article is an obituary in the New York Times (to which I subscribe.) Many who read this will also enjoy a subscription to The Times!
The article is by Kim Severson and Julia Moskin
Published Nov. 1, 2022
Updated Nov. 2, 2022
Julie Powell, the writer whose decision to spend a year cooking every recipe in Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” led to the popular food blog, the Julie/Julia Project, a movie starring Meryl Streep and a new following for Mrs. Child in the final years of her life, died on Oct. 26 at her home in Olivebridge, in upstate New York. She was 49.
Her husband, Eric Powell, said the cause was cardiac arrest.
Ms. Powell narrated her struggles in the kitchen in a funny, lacerating voice that struck a nerve with a rising generation of disaffected contemporaries.
The Julie/Julia Project became a popular model for other blogs, replicated by fans of the cooks Ina Garten, Thomas Keller and Dorie Greenspan, and helped build the vast modern audience for home cooking on social media.
The photo is of Julie Powell in 2009, the year Nora Ephron's movie “Julie & Julia,” based on Ms. Powell’s book, was released.
Credit...Kelly Campbell, via Little, Brown & Company.
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It’s Very Sad That Julie Powell The Food Writer Known for ‘Julie & Julia,’ Has Died At The Very Young Age of 49
Julie Powell, Food Writer Known for ‘Julie & Julia,’ Dies at 49
She attempted to cook every recipe in a classic Julia Child cookbook and documented the effort in a popular blog that became a best-selling book and a hit movie.
This article is an obituary in the New York Times (to which I subscribe.) Many who read this will also enjoy a subscription to The Times!
The article is by Kim Severson and Julia Moskin
Published Nov. 1, 2022
Updated Nov. 2, 2022
Julie Powell, the writer whose decision to spend a year cooking every recipe in Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” led to the popular food blog, the Julie/Julia Project, a movie starring Meryl Streep and a new following for Mrs. Child in the final years of her life, died on Oct. 26 at her home in Olivebridge, in upstate New York. She was 49.
Her husband, Eric Powell, said the cause was cardiac arrest.
Ms. Powell narrated her struggles in the kitchen in a funny, lacerating voice that struck a nerve with a rising generation of disaffected contemporaries.
The Julie/Julia Project became a popular model for other blogs, replicated by fans of the cooks Ina Garten, Thomas Keller and Dorie Greenspan, and helped build the vast modern audience for home cooking on social media.
The photo is of Julie Powell in 2009, the year Nora Ephron's movie “Julie & Julia,” based on Ms. Powell’s book, was released.
Credit...Kelly Campbell, via Little, Brown & Company.
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