Her blog, which later became a popular book and movie, chronicled her quest to cook every recipe in Julia Child’s « Mastering the Art of French Cooking. »
Julie Powell, the food writer who served as inspiration for the 2009 movie « Julie & Julia, » died on Oct. 26. She was 49.
Her husband, Eric Powell, confirmed her death to the New York Times, citing cardiac arrest as her cause of death.
In 2002, the food writer made a life-changing decision when she chronicled cooking all of Julia Child’s « Mastering the Art of French Cooking » in a year. Her Julie/Julia project served an example for the blog genre, which was emerging in the early 2000s.
In a New York Times interview, Powell called her spontaneous decision “one of those panicked, backed-into-a-corner kind of moments.
