{"id":1723232,"date":"2022-11-03T07:54:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T11:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1723232"},"modified":"2022-11-03T12:10:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T16:10:23","slug":"julie-powell-author-of-julie-julia-dead-at-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/julie-powell-author-of-julie-julia-dead-at-49\/","title":{"rendered":"Julie Powell, Author of \u201cJulie &#038; Julia,\u201d Dead at 49"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjulie-powell-author-of-julie-julia-dead-at-49%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1723232&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"speakable\">Julie Powell, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/food-drink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the food writer<\/a> behind &#8220;Julie &#038; Julia,&#8221; has died at 49.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Powell quickly\u00a0became an internet sensation after blogging for a year about making every recipe in Julia Child\u2019s &#8220;Mastering the Art of French Cooking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her blog landed her a book deal and later a film adaption.<\/p>\n<p>Powell died of cardiac arrest Oct. 26 at her home in upstate New York. Her death was confirmed to Fox News Digital by Judy Clain, Powell&#8217;s email and editor-in-chief of Little, Brown.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/640\/320\/julie.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Julie Powell, author of \" Julie \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Julie Powell, author of &#8220;Julie &#038; Julia,&#8221; has died at 49.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(AP Photo\/Peter Kramer, File)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;JULIE AND JULIA&#8217; became an instant classic, and it is with gratitude for her unique voice that we will now remember Julie\u2019s dazzling brilliance and originality,&#8221; Clain said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We mourn her loss with her husband Eric and her family. We are sending our deepest condolences to all who knew and loved Julie, whether personally or through the deep connections she forged with readers of her memoirs. She was a brilliant writer and a daring, original person, and she will not be forgotten.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/top-chef-alum-howard-kleinberg-dead-46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>&#8216;TOP CHEF&#8217; ALUM HOWARD KLEINBERG DEAD AT 46<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Powell released &#8220;Julie &#038; Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen&#8221; in 2005. The book became a hit and was later made into a movie, &#8220;Julie &#038; Julia.&#8221; Powell was portrayed by\u00a0Amy Adams in the movie and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/meryl-streep-depressed-filming-the-devil-wears-prada\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meryl Streep<\/a> starred as Julia Child.<\/p>\n<p>Powell released a second book, &#8220;Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat and Obsession.&#8221; In it, Powell revealed she had an affair and the pain of loving two men at once.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People coming from the movie \u2018Julie &#038; Julia\u2019 and picking up \u2018Cleaving\u2019 are going to be in for some emotional whiplash,&#8221; she told the Associated Press in 2009. &#8220;I don\u2019t believe it\u2019s going to be a Nora Ephron movie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/640\/320\/AP22305738031469.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Julie Powell chops leeks to make potato leek soup, one of the first recipes in Julia Child&#039;s \" Mastering the Art of French Cooking \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Julie Powell chops leeks to make potato leek soup, one of the first recipes in Julia Child&#8217;s &#8220;Mastering the Art of French Cooking,&#8221; shown at left, in her apartment in New York on Sept. 30, 2005.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(AP Photo\/Henny Ray Abrams, File)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Her affair began in 2004 as she was finishing up her first book. By 2006, she had landed an apprenticeship at a butcher shop two hours north of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/new-york-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York City<\/a>, which offered an escape from her crumbling marriage and a place to explore her childhood curiosity with butchers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The way they held a knife in their hand was like an extension of themselves,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I\u2019m a very clumsy person. I don\u2019t play sports. That kind of physical skill is really foreign to me, and I\u2019m really envious of that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The book explores the link between butchering and her own tortured romantic life. At one point, while cutting the connective tissue on a pig\u2019s leg, she writes, &#8220;It\u2019s sad, but a relief as well, to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence, leaving smooth surfaces instead of bloody shreds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/640\/320\/GettyImages-139351828.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Meryl Streep and Amy Adams portrayed Julie and Julia Childs in \" Julie \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Meryl Streep and Amy Adams portrayed Julie and Julia Childs in &#8220;Julie &#038; Julia&#8221; in 2009.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Gregg DeGuire\/FilmMagic)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Powell\u2019s second book tapped into the growing interest in old-school butchery and her experience slicing meat actually resulted in her eating less of it. She was an advocate for humanely raised and slaughtered animals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/apps-products?pid=AppArticleLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People want to get their hands dirty. People want to participate in the process. People want to know where their food is coming from,&#8221; Powell said. &#8220;People don\u2019t want the mystery anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She is survived by her husband, Eric.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-bio\">\n<p>Janelle Ash is an entertainment writer for Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julie Powell, the food writer behind &#8220;Julie &#038; Julia,&#8221; has died at 49.Powell quickly\u00a0became an internet sensation after blogging for a year about making every recipe in Julia Child\u2019s &#8220;Mastering<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1723235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1723232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1723232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1723235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1723232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1723232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1723232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}