Food writer Julie Powell is dead

Julie Powell died at the age of 49 on October 26 at her New York state home in Olivebridge.

Her husband, Eric, confirmed her death, stating that she had succumbed to a heart attack, as relayed by the

.

The celebrity had risen to fame thanks to her culinary blog in the early 2000s. She had indeed decided to document her attempts behind the stove by recreating all the recipes from the book by Julia Child,

, an icon of traditional cuisine in the United States, i.e. 524 recipes in 365 days in the small kitchen of his New York one-bedroom apartment.

Julie Powell had thus documented her failures and her successes in the kitchen, but also her attempts to get in touch with the author of the book whose recipes she followed – more or less.

A personal blog which may seem banal today, but which was a pioneer of the genre in 2002 and launched the trend that we have known ever since.

Her online success continued in bookstores, with the release of her own cookbook,

, in 2005. While her fame then centered on American soil, she went global when Hollywood contacted her.

Of her two-room apartment in Hollywood

After selling a million copies of her cookbook and becoming an online phenomenon, Julie Powell had what it took to become a movie subject.

Nora Ephron, to whom we owe the best romantic comedies of the 1990s (

,

,

), sniffed out the vein and landed the rights to her story.

The project materialized in 2009, with the feature film

, Amy Adams in the role of the young author and Meryl Streep in that of the culinary specialist whose recipes she tries.

Julia Child died in 2004, not without experiencing a resurgence of public interest in her cookery books.

As for whether she finally got in touch with Julie Powell, we must take the opportunity to rewatch Nora Ephron's film, which is also her last, the filmmaker having died in 2012.

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