Julie Powell
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Powell in May 2011
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| Born |
April 20, 1973 Austin, Texas, US |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Amherst College |
| Period | 2002–present |
| Genre | Memoir, Adult-nonfiction |
| Notable works | Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen |
| Spouse | Eric Powell |
Julie Powell, née Foster (born April 20, 1973) is an American author best known for her book Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen, and a subsequent movie.
Powell was born and raised in Austin, Texas. She graduated from Amherst College in 1995 with a double major in theater and creative writing. She later married Eric Powell, an editor for the magazine Archaeology.
While working for the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation in August 2002, Powell began the Julie/Julia Project, a blog chronicling her attempt to cook all the recipes in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. The blog quickly gained a large following, and Powell signed a book deal with Little, Brown and Company. The resulting book, Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen, was published in 2005. The paperback edition was retitled Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously.
Child was reported to have been unimpressed with Powell's blog, believing her determination to cook every recipe in Mastering the Art of French Cooking in a year to be a stunt. Child's editor, Judith Jones, said in an interview:
Flinging around four-letter words when cooking isn't attractive, to me or Julia. She didn't want to endorse it. What came through on the blog was somebody who was doing it almost for the sake of a stunt. She would never really describe the end results, how delicious it was, and what she learned. Julia didn't like what she called 'the flimsies.' She didn't suffer fools, if you know what I mean.
In 2009, Powell was awarded an honorary diploma from Le Cordon Bleu, the same cooking school from which Child graduated in 1951.
Powell's second book, Cleaving: a Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession, which details the effects on her marriage of an affair she had after the first book's publication, as well as her experiences learning the butcher trade, was published November 30, 2009.
A film adaptation of the book, directed by Nora Ephron and titled Julie & Julia, was released August 7, 2009. The film was based on both Powell's book and Julia Child's autobiography My Life in France. Amy Adams starred as Powell and Meryl Streep as Julia Child. Powell's husband, Eric, was portrayed by Chris Messina. Julia's husband Paul Cushing Child was played by Stanley Tucci.
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