![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/julie-powell-who-inspired-the-film-julie-julia-dies-at-49/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/127481038_gettyimages-660225320.jpg&description=Image source, Getty ImagesJulie Powell, who found fame with an early food blog that was turned into a best-selling book and a hit movie, has died at the age of 49.In 2002, Powell challenged herself to cook all 524 dishes in a recipe book by TV chef Julia Child in 365 days as a distraction from her day job.The resulting blog gained a large following and a book came out in 2005.She was played by Amy Adams in a 2009 film version, titled Julie & Julia, written and directed by Nora Ephron.Meryl Streep was nominated for an Oscar for portraying Child.Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Amy Adams played Powell in Julie & JuliaPowell fell in love with Child's 1961 classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 1 when she would steal it out of her mother's pantry as a child.She came across it again when visiting her parents at the age of 29.At the time, she was depressed and working for the Manhattan Development Corporation after the 11 September 2001 attacks."I got a lot of calls from residents and relatives of people who had died," she told the BBC World Service's Outlook programme in 2020."I got calls from people who had contracted lung diseases after being down there at 9/11, and I often didn't know where to send them. So I would just listen to them, and some of them were crazy, and some of them were not. But all of them were looking for help in a way that we were not always equipped to give."So that was what I was doing every day and it makes a person feel fairly useless and incapable."She decided to work her way through Child's opus, often tackling multiple recipes a day in the tiny apartment she shared with her husband Eric - and she documented the personal and domestic challenges as well as the culinary ones."I had to balance my mixer on the trash can and my food processor on some other thing," she said. "There was a lot of jumping over cords and almost tripping on stuff that was stacked on the floor."There were quite a few dinners at 11pm or midnight. The f){kind=link}
Julie Powell, who found fame with an early food blog that was turned into a best-selling book and a hit movie, has died at the age of 49.
In 2002, Powell challenged herself to cook all 524 dishes in a recipe book by TV chef Julia Child in 365 days as a distraction from her day job.
The resulting blog gained a large following and a book came out in 2005.
She was played by Amy Adams in a 2009 film version, titled Julie & Julia, written and directed by Nora Ephron.
Meryl Streep was nominated for an Oscar for portraying Child.