Julie Powellthe successful author who documented her plan to cook each recipe in Julia Child’s legendary book, Master the art of French cuisine. He died of heart attack at his New York home at the age of 49.
Powell became famous in the early 2000s when, dissatisfied with her life as a 9 to 17-year-old employee, decided to prepare all 524 meals from the famous Child’s Cookbook over the course of a year.
An unexpected success
He candidly wrote every detail and thought in a blog for Salon.com, which has amassed hundreds of thousands of readers. In your first year, you got over 400,000 views.
In the end published her first book in 2005: Julie and Julia: 365 days, 524 recipes, 1 tiny apartment kitchen. Four years later, a theatrical version was released, adapted by writer / director Nora Ephron. streep played Julia Child, while Amy Adams was in the role of Julie Powell.
The real Julia Child, who died in 2004, has never seen the movie. However, she was aware of Powell’s food project.
Book sales skyrocketed after the film, and Powell achieved her goal of leaving her routine life behind and becoming a writer.
A strange last tweet
Julia Powell was born in Austin, Texas in 1973. She studied theater and creative writing at Amherst College, graduating in 1995. She later married Eric Powell, editor of an archaeological magazine in the United States.
one day before he died, Powell left one last post on his Twitter account. He posted that he woke up with a strange condition.
“I woke up with something that is literally a hairy black tongue. Some people, including my doctor, seem to think it’s not a big deal and will be leaving soon, but it’s really disgusting, “he tweeted.
This condition is known as a “hairy black tongue” and in most cases it is a harmless condition, caused by the accumulation of dead skin cells in the small bumps where the taste buds are located and can be linked to the use of antibiotics and the smoke
A series about Julia Child
HBO Max premiered on March 31 this year a series called Giuliainspired by the extraordinary life of Julia Child, the French chef who caused a sensation among American viewers in the 1960s and the author of several books that have also been best sellers in her country.
Through the life of Julia, recognized for being a pioneer of modern cooking shows and her particular personality, always in a good mood, the series explores a pivotal moment in the history of the United States.
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