‘Julie & Julia' Author Julie Powell Dead at 49 - NBC Connecticut

Julie Powell, the nutrient blogger played by Amy Adams in the film "Julie & Julia," died astatine property 49 successful her New York residence Oct. 26, per The New York Times. According to her husband, Eric Powell, Julie's origin of decease was cardiac arrest.

Her passing comes astir 20 years aft Julie Powell changed the trajectory of her beingness — and arguably the trajectory of nutrient blogging — backmost successful 2002 erstwhile she decided to acceptable disconnected connected a ngo to navigator each 524 recipes listed in Julia Child's book "Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 1." Powell documented this experimentation successful her blog "The Julie/Julia Project"—but that was conscionable the beginning.

Powell yet turned her blog into the book "Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen," which was published successful 2005. And successful 2009, the publication was adapted into "Julie & Julia," a movie written and directed by Nora Ephron which co-starred Meryl Streep as Child. The movie intertwined the stories of some Powell's and Child's culinary experience.

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At the time, Powell reflected connected however she differed from the mode Adams portrayed her onscreen, noting that immoderate aspects are the aforesaid and teasing that others are rather different.

Meryl Streep sits down to speech astir becoming Julia Child for the movie “Julie & Julia.”

"The matrimony scenes betwixt her and Chris Messina, who plays my husband, consciousness truly authentic, precise overmuch the mode we speech to 1 different and conscionable ARE together," Julie told Orlando Sentinel in 2009. "She's overmuch nicer than me, of course. Read the publication aft seeing the movie and you volition beryllium shocked. She plays these saccharine roles and I, to accidental the least, americium not sweet!"

Powell added, "I'm a complainer. But now, with my beingness these days, I person thing to kick about!"

Now aft her death, fans are remembering Powell for the beingness she led.

One idiosyncratic penned to Twitter, "I truthful admired her open-hearted honesty arsenic a writer and a person. She was a vibrant beingness present and everywhere. A large loss."

Meanwhile different added, "This hits maine hard--J&J was a large power successful my determination to enactment successful food, successful portion due to the fact that Julie Powell was truthful effectual astatine penning astir cooking arsenic a means of intelligence engagement and idiosyncratic fulfillment. She was a splendid writer and mislaid acold excessively soon."