Today there are food bloggers like sand by the sea. But when Julie Powell embarked on a marathon using Julia Child's recipes in the early 2000s, it was still something special. Her story will therefore also be filmed. Now she suddenly died.
Julie Powell is dead. The author and blogger died on October 26 at the age of just 49. Her husband confirmed this to the "New York Times". The cause of death was a cardiac arrest that Powell suffered at her home in Olivebridge, New York.
Powell was best known for her blog Julie/Julia Project in the early 2000s. Bored with her job, the secretary set herself the task of cooking all the recipes from Julia Child's book "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" in one year. Her outspoken and mostly humorous contributions quickly found numerous fans. Powell was hailed as one of the first stars of food blogging.
The book resulting from the project "Julie
Powell published a second book in 2009. It was entitled "Cleaving: a Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession".
Noted food blogger Deb Perelman spoke out about Powell's death. She was "shocked," she said. "She (Powell) made Child relevant to a new generation and wrote about cooking in a fresh, fun, this-is-my-real-life tone, which was rare at the time," she tweeted.
Julia Child, born in 1912 and whose recipes Powell copied, was an American celebrity chef. The "Mastering the Art of French Cooking", published in 1961, was her best-known book and standard work. She died in 2004 at the age of 91.
