NEW YORK, United States — Julie Powell, the
writer whose yearlong mission to cook through Julia Child’s “
French Cooking”
masterpiece was immortalized in print and film, has died of cardiac arrest, The
New York Times said on Tuesday. She was 49 years old.
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Citing her husband, the paper said Julia, one of the
original food bloggers, died on October 26 at her home in upstate New York.
Disillusioned
with her low-level administration job in
New York and seeking a creative
outlet, Powell launched her Julie/Julia Project in the nascent era of internet
writing, detailing her kitchen adventures using spiky humor in a direct,
diaristic tone.
The project involved cooking all 524 recipes from
Child’s 1961 classic “Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 1” from her
tiny, broken-down apartment in Long Island City, Queens that she shared with
her husband.
The self-deprecating drama of her mishaps and
disappointments both in and out of the kitchen struck a chord with a crop of
primarily Gen X readers, and the blog gained hundreds of thousands of views at
a moment when many people still used dial-up.
In 2005, the project was published as a book: “Julie
& Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen”.
For her final film the late writer and director
Nora Ephron adapted the book into an Oscar-nominated feature film, starring Meryl
Streep as Child and Amy Adams as Powell.
Powell’s project inspired scores of food bloggers
who followed, its template and tone apparent in the later successful web and
social media projects of cooks including Dorie Greenspan, Ina Garten, Deb
Perelman, and Alison Roman.
“I was shocked to learn this morning of the passing of Julie
Powell, the original food blogger,” Perelman tweeted on Tuesday under the
account of her famous social media and cookbook brand, Smitten Kitchen.
“Cooking through Julia Child’s books, she made Child relevant to a new
generation, and wrote about cooking in a fresh, conversational, this-is-my-real
life tone that was rare back then.”
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