Julie Powell, Author of "Julie & Julia," Dies at 49



Julie Powell, the nutrient blogger played by Amy Adams inside the film "Julie & Julia," died astatine property forty 9 successful her New York location Oct. 26, successful enactment with The New York Times. According to her husband, Eric Powell, Julie's motive of decease became cardiac arrest.

Her passing comes astir 20 years aft Julie Powell changed the trajectory of her lifestyles — and arguably the trajectory of nutrient moving a blog — little backmost successful 2002 erstwhile she determined to acceptable disconnected connected a assment to hole meal each 524 recipes listed in Julia Child's book "Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 1." Powell documented this trial successful her blog "The Julie/Julia Project"—but that go simply the beginning.

Powell yet became her weblog into the e-book "Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen," which became posted successful 2005. And successful 2009, the e-book became adapted into "Julie & Julia," a movie written and directed by means of Nora Ephron which co-starred Meryl Streep as Child. The movie intertwined the stories of each Powell's and Child's culinary enjoy.

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At the time, Powell contemplated connected however she differed from the mode Adams portrayed her onscreen, noting that a fewer elements are the aforesaid and teasing that others are beauteous special.

"The matrimony scenes among her and Chris Messina, who performs my husband, consciousness simply true, precise a batch the mode we speech to each different and conscionable ARE together," Julie told Orlando Sentinel in 2009. "She's a batch nicer than me, of route. Read the e publication aft seeing the movie and you volition beryllium shocked. She performs these candy roles and I, to notation the least, americium present not candy!"

Powell delivered, "I'm a complainer. But now, with my beingness these days, I don't person thing to kick approximately!"

Now aft her demise, enthusiasts are remembering Powell for the beingness she led.

One user penned to Twitter, "I truthful celebrated her open-hearted honesty arsenic a creator and a person. She was a colourful beingness close present and anywhere. A tremendous loss."

Meanwhile different introduced, "This hits maine hard--J&J go a premier power successful my enactment to enactment successful food, successful constituent due to the fact that Julie Powell turned into truthful almighty astatine penning astir cooking arsenic a mode of highbrow engagement and backstage success. She turned into a superb writer and misplaced a agelong mode excessively quickly."