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Julie Powell, a writer and location navigator who became a culinary improvement portion trying to marque each look successful Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” a year-long task that she chronicled successful an irreverent blog and a book, “Julie & Julia,” that was adapted into a deed movie, died Oct. 26 astatine her location successful Olivebridge, N.Y. She was 49.
The origin was cardiac arrest, said a friend, Nicole Mabry.
Ms. Powell was a bored administrative assistant, surviving successful a cramped New York flat connected the cusp of turning 30, erstwhile she launched her task successful 2002 successful “one of those panicked, backed-into-a-corner benignant of moments,” arsenic she aboriginal told the New York Times. Her blog, the Julie/Julia Project, was a humorous, idiosyncratic catalogue of her effort to navigator each 524 recipes from her mother’s dog-eared transcript of “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” Child’s 1961 classic, which required her to scour market stores and butcher shops for uncommon ingredients (kidneys, sweetbreads) and larn to peel potatoes into an olive shape.
The blog brought her a wide assemblage and yet a publishing deal.
Her book, “Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen” (2005), sold immoderate 1 cardinal copies and was adapted into a 2009 movie. Written and directed by Nora Ephron, “Julie & Julia” starred Amy Adams arsenic Ms. Powell, whose communicative was intertwined with that of Child (played by Meryl Streep) and Child’s husband, Paul (Stanley Tucci).
A implicit obituary volition beryllium published soon.
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