She was 49
Powell rose to fame in 2002 when she launched the Julie/Julia Project, a chronicle of her attempt to cook all 524 recipes from Julia Child’s 1961 cookbooka book she had inherited from her mother — in one year. Powell, who was nearing 30 when the blog launched, tackled everything from clafoutis to lobster thermidor, all from the confines of the tiny Queens, New York apartment that she shared with her husband, Eric.
The blog was emblematic of the early days of food blogging. Powell embodied a wry, exasperated tone when discussing both food and life, with no shortage of cursing and schadenfreude. While Powell would detail her challenges around cooking with ingredients like aspic, she would also expound on her personal life, quickly growing an audience that was as interested in Powell’s cooking successes and failures as it was in her feelings and relationships.
, which published in 2005. Those who were unaware of the original Julie/Julia Project soon came to know it through the 2009 Nora Ephron film, which starred Amy Adams as Powell and Meryl Streep as Julia Child, for which Streep earned an Oscar nomination. It would be Ephron’s final film before she died. In 2011, Northwestern University student Lawrence Daievery day for a year, continuing Powell’s legacy of obsessiveness nearly a decade after the original blog went live.
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