Julie & Julia food writer Julie Powell dead at 49 after suffering a cardiac arrest: Early 2000s...

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...blogger's attempt to cook all 524 recipes in Julia Child's famed Mastering The Art of French Cooking in a year became a best-selling book and movie


  • Powell's Julie/Julia Project established her as one of the web's first food bloggers
  • She wrote a best-selling book which was adapted into an Oscar-nominated film
  • Powell died at her home in Olivebridge, upstate New York, her husband has said
Food writer Julie Powell, whose blog about cooking every recipe in Julia Child's 1961 'French Cooking' book was turned into an Oscar-nominated movie, has died aged 49.


Powell rose to fame in the early 2000s when she began a blog about her attempt to cook every recipe in Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking: Volume 1.

The project established her as one of the internet's first food bloggers and she went on to write the book Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen in 2005.

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.

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'Julie & Julia' food writer Julie Powell dies at 49 after suffering cardiac arrest | Daily Mail Online