Meals author Julie Powell, who grew to become an web darling after running a blog for a 12 months about making each recipe in Julia Child’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 house in upstate New York, The New York Instances reported. Her demise was confirmed by Judy Clain, Powell’s e-mail and editor in chief of Little, Brown.
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“She was an excellent author and a daring, authentic individual and he or she is not going to be forgotten,” Clain stated in a press release. “We’re sending our deepest condolences to all who knew and liked Julie, whether or not personally or by means of the deep connections she cast with readers of her memoirs.”
Powell’s 2005 e-book Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Condominium Kitchen grew to become the hit, Nora Ephron-directed movie Julie & Julia, with the writer portrayed within the film by Amy Adams and Meryl Streep as Little one.
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 directly, of her fondness for sadomasochism and even a bout of self-punishing intercourse with a stranger.
“Folks coming from the film Julie & Julia and selecting up Cleaving are going to be in for some emotional whiplash,” she advised The Related Press in 2009. “I don’t imagine 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 arms.”
By 2006, she had landed an apprenticeship at a butcher store two hours north of New York Metropolis, which supplied an escape from her crumbling marriage and a spot to discover her childhood curiosity with butchers.
“The way in which they held a knife of their hand was like an extension of themselves,” she stated. “I’m a really clumsy individual. I don’t play sports activities. That type of bodily ability is actually international 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 aid as effectively, to know that two issues so carefully certain collectively can separate with so little violence, leaving clean surfaces as a substitute of bloody shreds.”
Her e-book tapped into the rising curiosity in old skool butchery and her expertise slicing meat truly resulted in her consuming much less of it. She was an advocate for humanely raised and slaughtered animals.
“Folks need to get their arms soiled. Folks need to take part within the course of. Folks need to know the place their meals is coming from,” Powell stated. “Folks don’t need the thriller anymore.”
She is survived by her husband, Eric.
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