As a catharsis, this is how Julie Powell (Austin, Texas, 1973), promoter of much of the boom in cooking blogs at the beginning of the 21st century, explained on several occasions, her fondness for being behind the stove when she discovered the book The art of French cuisinethe essential of Julia Child with which the United States knew the French gastronomy.
Having never fried an egg (and it’s not just a set phrase), Julie Powell proposed to make the 524 recipes that appeared in this classic cookbooksubsequently abandoning her secretarial job and becoming the first media figure of amateur cooking in a fledgling internet.
From there, fame and making the leap to a medium like Salon, which hosted the project Julia/Julie and then became a mighty best seller. So much so that she wrote her own memoirs of him in 2005 and in 2009 she would jump the story again, in this case to the big screen, with Julie & Juliaturning his autobiography into a film with Amy Adams playing Julie and Meryl Streep playing Julia Child.
Although that film debut did not have the approval of the real Child and Powell was not fully satisfiedbecause it explained Washington Post that “a sweet Powell was always portrayed, when the reality is that there were moments of neuroticism”, was the definitive blow for the woman who made cooking blogs fashionable when we still didn’t even know how to use the internet.
The art of French cuisine
A true pioneer in the dissemination of gastronomy, even if she was resorting to the old cookbook that her mother had at home, and that she leaves us too soon. At the age of 49, in her home and victim of a heart attack, Julie Powell passed away, but she leaves a legacy and trail in which all the who cooks at home and spreads it on networks has a little bit of Julie.
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