Julie Powell, meals author of ‘Julie & Julia,’ dies at 49 – Nationwide

Meals author Julie Powell, who turned an web darling after running a blog for a 12 months about making each recipe in Julia Baby’s Mastering the Artwork of French Cooking, resulting in a e-book deal and a movie adaptation, has died. She was 49.

Powell died of cardiac arrest Oct. 26 at her residence in upstate New York, The New York Occasions reported. Her demise was confirmed by Judy Clain, Powell’s e mail and editor in chief of Little, Brown.

“She was an excellent author and a daring, unique particular person and she or he won’t be forgotten,” Clain mentioned in an announcement. “We’re sending our deepest condolences to all who knew and cherished Julie, whether or not personally or by the deep connections she solid with readers of her memoirs.”

Powell’s 2005 e-book Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny House Kitchen turned the hit, Nora Ephron-directed movie Julie & Julia, with the writer portrayed within the film by Amy Adams and Meryl Streep as Baby.

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Her sophomore and final effort — titled Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat and Obsession — was a bit jarring in its honesty. Powell revealed she had an affair, the ache of loving two males without delay, of her fondness for sadomasochism and even a bout of self-punishing intercourse with a stranger.

“Individuals coming from the film Julie & Julia and choosing up Cleaving are going to be in for some emotional whiplash,” she informed The Related Press in 2009. “I don’t consider it’s going to be a Nora Ephron film.”

Powell started her affair in 2004 as she was placing the ending touches on her first e-book, a time she writes when she was “starry-eyed and vaguely discontented and had an excessive amount of time on my fingers.”

By 2006, she had landed an apprenticeship at a butcher store two hours north of New York Metropolis, which provided an escape from her crumbling marriage and a spot to discover her childhood curiosity with butchers.

“The best way they held a knife of their hand was like an extension of themselves,” she mentioned. “I’m a really clumsy particular person. I don’t play sports activities. That sort of bodily talent is admittedly overseas to me, and I’m actually envious of that.”

The e-book explores the hyperlink between butchering and her personal tortured romantic life. At one level, whereas slicing the connective tissue on a pig’s leg, she writes: “It’s unhappy, however a reduction as nicely, to know that two issues so carefully sure collectively can separate with so little violence, leaving easy surfaces as a substitute of bloody shreds.”

Her e-book tapped into the rising curiosity in old style butchery and her expertise slicing meat really resulted in her consuming much less of it. She was an advocate for humanely raised and slaughtered animals.

“Individuals wish to get their fingers soiled. Individuals wish to take part within the course of. Individuals wish to know the place their meals is coming from,” Powell mentioned. “Individuals don’t need the thriller anymore.”

She is survived by her husband, Eric.

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