Julie Powell, bestselling author who chronicled her efforts to prepare all the recipes from Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” which later inspired the movie “Julie & Julia” with Meryl Streep and Amy Adams, died on October 26 at his home in New York. She was 49 years old.
The death was confirmed to the New York Times by her husband, Eric Powell, who said the cause of death was cardiac arrest.
Powell’s book was made into the 2009 film directed by Nora Ephron. Meryl Streep played Julia Child and Amy Adams played Powell.
THE CNN contacted the editor of the influential food writer to comment.
“Julie & Julia” shows how a blog on Salon.com, in which Powell, seeking a way out of his humdrum life in midtown Manhattan in the aftermath of 9/11, embarked on a homemade odyssey to successfully obtain all 524 recipes on the Child’s classic French cookbook over a year in his tiny kitchen in Astoria, Queens.
The memoir “Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen” came after the blog gained a loyal following who were eager to share Powell’s successes and failures as she struggled to prepare challenging dishes like Boeuf. Bourguignon and a boneless duck from Canard en Croûte.
Since the success of the bestseller, Powell went on to write another one in 2009, “Cleaving: a Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession.”
Most recently, she returned to the Salon earlier this year to write reviews for the Food Network series “The Julia Child Challenge.”
“She really made her own 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 to be the channel.”
At the heart of Powell’s blog, and later the critically acclaimed film that used it as a basis, was the writer’s admiration for Julia Child’s cooking and way of life.
“Julia taught me what it takes to find your way in the world. It’s not what I thought it was,” Powell wrote. “I thought it was everything – I don’t know, trust, will or luck. Those are all some good things to have, no doubt. But there is something else, something these things grow from. And joy”.
Source: CNN Brasil
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