Julie powell

Julie Powell blogged about her journey of making every recipe in Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking"

Julie Powell, the food writer best known for her wildly popular memoir “Julie & Julia,” has died at the age of 49.

The other evening I was sitting with some friends and we started to talk about the movie Julie & Julia and the blog. One of the women hadn’t heard the story…. The Blog: Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen. Take a step back in time…. Julie Powell began blogging on Sunday, August 25, 2002.…Read more ›

Within a year she had 400,000 page views, though Julia Child accused her of not being ‘a serious cook’

Today, after making my toast and coffee, I decided to read all the headlines in The NY Times- and then leave the news until the evening. I have found that listening to the news throughout the day only make me more anxious and more distracted, making it hard to focus on work. And I have …

Everything Julie Powell learned from cooking through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking.

In 2002, an Amherst College grad with a double major in theater and creative writing started a project that would change her life. Julie Powell was living in New York City with her husband Eric, working at the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation. Feeling unfulfilled at work, her husband encouraged her to start blogging, the newest form of … Continue reading "Julie Powell: Julia Child Refused To Acknowledge This Author as a Cook" The post Julie Powell: Julia Child Refused To A

Powell was best known for the hit memoir, which was adapted into a popular Nora Ephron film of the same name starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams.

Amy Adams didn't exactly follow a recipe when bringing Julie Powell to life on the big screen. The "Julie/Julia Project" food blogger died on Oct. 26 from cardiac arrest, per The New York Times....