Julie Powell, the food blogger played by Amy Adams in the film “Julie & Julia,” died at age 49 in her New York residence Oct. 26, per The New York Times. According to her husband, Eric Powell, Julie’s cause of death was cardiac arrest.
Her passing comes about 20 years after Julie Powell changed the trajectory of her life — and arguably the trajectory of food blogging — back in 2002 when she decided to set off on a mission to cook all 524 recipes listed in Julia Child’s book “Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 1.” Powell documented this experiment in her blog “The Julie/Julia Project”—but that was just the beginning.
Powell eventually turned
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