Julie Powell, a bestselling author who chronicled her efforts to prepare every recipe in Julia Child's 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking,' which later inspired the movie 'Julie & Julia,' died Oct. 26 at her home in New York. She was 49.
Food writer Julie Powell chops leeks to make potato leek soup, one of the first recipes in Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," shown at left, in her apartment in New York on Sept. 30, 2005.
Powell's book was turned into a 2009 film directed by Nora Ephron, with Meryl Streep playing Julia Child and Amy Adams in the role of Powell herself."Julie & Julia" began as a blog on Salon.com in which Powell, seeking an outlet from her humdrum life as a temp in downtown Manhattan soon after 9/11, embarked on a home-cooking odyssey to successfully pull off all 524 recipes in Child's classic French cookbook over the course of one year in her small Astoria, Queens kitchen.
Since the success of that bestselling book, Powell went on to write one more in 2009, "Cleaving: a Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession." about the Food Network series "The Julia Child Challenge.", who previously managed Open Salon, the platform that hosted Powell's blog, said of the writer. "We were lucky enough to be the conduit."
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