"... the Julie/Julia Project, a movie starring Meryl Streep and a new following for Mrs. Child in the final years of her life, died on Oct. 26 at her home in Olivebridge, in upstate New York. She was 49. Her husband, Eric Powell, said the cause was cardiac arrest.
"Mrs. Child never saw the film — she died in 2004 — but she was familiar with Ms. Powell’s project. Russ Parsons, a former Los Angeles Times food editor who was among the first to report on the blog, sent Mrs. Child, then in her 90s, some excerpts. She took the project as an affront, not the self-deprecating romp that Ms. Powell intended, and told Mr. Parsons that she and others had tested and retested the recipes so they would be accessible to cooks of all skill levels. 'I don’t understand how she could have problems with them,' he recalled her telling him. 'She just must not be much of a cook.'"
Very sad to die so young. I admire the specificity of her blogging project and loved seeing my favorite format — blogging — used with such focus and panache. You know how to make panache, don't you? Just kidding. Panache/ganache... what's the difference?
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A widower-maker.
I hope she had not recently received a covid booster.
That movie made Julia Child sound a lot more fun than this obituary does.
A very good movie.
We do not know the date or time. Don't put things off.
And that's why Meade is going to have a giant birthday bash for Althouse this January.
If you see excerpts from her blog itself, it was very early-bloggy style -- basically, "here's what I did today" -- but it's a compelling read, from long before there were 200 amateur cooking shows on TV. The film made her seem like a sad character -- I think it was the only vaguely unlikeable performance I've ever seen by Amy Adams, especially compared to Meryl Streep's vibrant Julia Child. I don't know what the actual Julie Powell thought of the movie, but it seemed a little unfair to her.
So much happens in the world. Here's someone I was totally unaware of. Vaguely aware Streep played Julia Childs once, but that's it. Too young.
She took the project as an affront
After Dan Aykroyd’s depredations who can blame her?
"You know how to make panache, don't you?"
That's the cosine function. Adjacent over hypotenuse. pi comes in later.
Dylan is not the only one slaying geometry you know.
Butter is a killer...
Sure is amazing how all these healthy people in early middle age are dropping dead from heart attacks. I wonder what is going on with that. Oh well; I guess it's a mystery that will never be explained.
"She was 49. Her husband, Eric Powell, said the cause was cardiac arrest."
There was a time when we would have thought 49 was very young for cardiac arrest. But that was before we got the jab.
Fully vaxxed, we suppose?
Well that's a darned shame. Geez, 49 years old.
I like that movie, and I love "Mastering the Art of French Cooking." I've cooked many recipes from it, and they're all well-adapted to people with middle-American food availability. You don't have to drive all over town looking for some curated extra-precious ingredient to cook Julia's cuisine. She even tells you, if you don't have any white wine sitting around, use water. A great book by a great lady. And I'm sorry to hear that Julie died.
Sad to die young like that.
Was she vaccinated?
Boosted?
John Stop fascism vote republican Henry
Was she inoculated with an mRNA Covid vaccine? Alex Berenson posting lots of data about unusually high excess death levels, particularly from heart issues, among highly vaccinated populations. Is Julie Powell another statistic?
Bet she died from the covid vaccine. Lots of young people like her dropping dead due to cardiac arrest after taking the jab.
Good thing the FDA approved the vaccine for children. Otherwise, the vaccine manufacturer's legal immunity would end when the "emergency" ended. Looks like Pfizer and Moderna really dodged a bullet there.
Did you know that the CIA created Moderna?
IMO, top notch French cuisine is more about technique than ingredients.
Funny so many think covid jab. My equally cynical mind however went to drug overdose. Poor woman probably just had a bad heart.
Ha Ha. I'm too late. Everyone knows (not literally) it was the vax.
I loved that part of the movie with Julia Child and hated every second of the movie with the other Julie. Nevertheless, this saddens me. 49 is too young.
If I recall the film correctly, she did meet Julia at the end, and Julia was not nice to the Julie Powell/Amy Adams character. Meryl Streep was great, though.
Julie Powell was a sex addict. She wrote a frank book about it -- Cleaving: a Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession -- which I read.
Ted, the movie made her look better than her own words. She came across as a thoroughly unlikable woman in the book (at least acc'd to my wife, who read it after seeing the movie).
Women have been dying of heart attacks in their 40s for a long time. It is one of those "surprise" medical findings where the women are often misdiagnosed.
It's a shame we don't live in a country where the simple question, "Is there a relationship between the Covid vaccine, and a higher likelihood of heart problems?", can be investigated honestly. If there is a connection, we should know. Any medical professional, or public servant, or journalist, should want that question answered, and the results communicated to the public. If there is a connection, perhaps the risks can be mitigated. If there is no connection, the hypothesis should be discredited with evidence, not mockery or hostility. Why should it be a surprise that a vaccine that was rushed to market without the usual testing might have unforeseen consequences? The vaccine may have saved many lives, while simultaneously harming others. What's wrong with doing a thorough review of the recent increase in cardiac events (if there genuinely is such an increase), and seeing if a pattern emerges? We live in a country where you can no longer ask legitimate questions. To ask is to invite cancellation. It's no wonder that conspiracy theories thrive - the experts can't be trusted, and will not allow themselves to be questioned. And sometimes the theories turn out to be true.
I am very sorry to hear about a woman dying so young! I enjoyed the movie, but upon reading Julia Childs' biography, I couldn't imagine someone familiar with her life's work would think she would enjoy the blog.
Everyone dies of cardiac arrest.
To the posters that are speculating about you know what: take a long, hard look at yourselves. You are insane.
If you like delicious omelets I really recommend Julia Child's (second) episode on same, to wit: “The Omelette Show”, The French Chef, Volume 9, Episode 18 (from January 1, 1972), available to watch at Amazon Prime Video. Now I'm no cook, but they're easy — and delicious — and take only 20 seconds each to actually cook (according to Julia Child — for me it's usually about 30-40 seconds per — I can't quite make 20 sec., probably because I seldom have a hot enough pan available). As she explains, Julia Child's (and my) omelets roll off a frying pan so fast, in fact, that it's easy to supply a large party (or a homeless luncheon, which I've prepared this dish for numerous times) — especially if there's a second cook manning another burner/frying pan — in only a relatively few minutes. And they turn out great!
I'm sorry to hear someone died so young. Condolences to her family.
The woman who plays Julia Child in the recent HBO series is just as good as Meryl was in the movie. Maybe it's impossible to play a bad Julia? She was a fascinating person, so vibrant.
As I recall the movie ends with a stick of butter placed on a shrine to Julia. No need for additional explanations of cardiac arrest if that was true to life.
A lot of fairly young people dying unexpectedly.
Covid vaccine bags another body.
Misplaced Pants,
People on your discord are wondering what happened to you.
Maybe the heart attack was from eating all those high fat French meals that are in Childs’ cookbooks.
Just kidding, it was probably caused by the jab.
There are worse things than being played in a movie by Amy Adams.
Blogger Lilly, a dog said...
“To the posters that are speculating about you know what: take a long, hard look at yourselves. You are insane.”
A dog is telling me I’m insane? Go back to stiffing butts lady.
A guy on YouTube is trying all the recipes. He is great. https://youtube.com/c/ANTICHEF
"Cleaving: a Story of Marriage, Meat." Since it was about 1) learning to be a butcher and 2) her and her husband's affairs, I would have to count that as a double entendre.
I enjoyed her book and the movie. Julia was a national treasure!!
It was the butter wot dunnit. Also, white supremacists.
The movie was enjoyable. Amy Adams is very likeable. I was going to say something about Julia and Paul Child's problems with the FBI, but the Cold War is over (or was, the last time I checked), so instead, something from Wikipedia:
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."
Reviews from others were also mixed. David Kamp writing in The New York Times disliked Powell's attempts at memoirs and said it "has too much blog in its DNA. It has a messy, whatever's-on-my-mind incontinence to it, taking us places we'd rather not go." Similarly, Keith Phipps of The A.V. Club didn't think the transition from blog to memoir was handled well, asserting that its "digressive stream-of-consciousness style has become the lingua franca of the blogosphere, and while it can be an art form when dished out in daily installments, it's a slog at book length."
Blogophobia? Is a book made out of blog posts really that different from a book made out of newspaper columns? It might be good to add a plot to tie the thing together and to tweak the results of the day's cooking to avoid repetition, but there may be more in each day's thoughts than there would be in a more compact memoir.
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"If I recall the film correctly, she did meet Julia at the end, and Julia was not nice to the Julie Powell/Amy Adams character. Meryl Streep was great, though."
Julia Child was not a nice lady, at least in her later years. There was a big kerfuffle in the early 90s when a school was going to open near her home in Cambridge focused on "disadvantaged" children, mainly from grittier urban sections of the area. She put up a real stink about it, and I don't think it did her reputation any good.
RIP to Julie Powell. And yes, my first thought was also the jab.
Someone should have told her to lay off the beef Bourguignon every night. Or maybe lay off the rDNA shots. Cardiac arrest at her age does not just happen. Something caused it.
I never thought Julia Child's cooking was particularly French because of her huge portion sizes, big globs of butter would be glopped into a pan, next she'd dump gallons of Sherry. That's not the French way.
French women don't get fat, and they certainly aren't having heart attacks, due to the tiny portions.
Jupiter,
No kung flu vaccine has been "approved" by the FDA. Not for kids, not for adults.
To be "approved" a manufacturer has to prove to fda's satisfaction that a drug is "safe" and "effective" (quotes to indicate legal terms)
To date no manufacturer has done this with a kung flu vaccine. Except for Pfizer's cominrta vaccine which is not available in the us. (or anywhere else?)
The only kung flu vaccines available in the US have been "authorized" by fda under an Emergency Use Authorization. That means that, in the opinion, not necessarily based on testing, of the FDA the drug is less dangerous than the disease.
If I had young kids I would not let them take this unapproved "vaccine" which is not even a vaccine by any historic or normal definition.
I won't get any boosters for myself either. I got the single j&j poke 18 months ago and that's it
John stop fascism vote republican Henry
"The only kung flu vaccines available in the US have been "authorized" by fda under an Emergency Use Authorization."
This emergency began- when? Nearly three years ago, was it?
I like the Julia Child parts of the movie, but not Julie. She was okay as a blogger, but not a very interesting writer.
Gael Greene was much more compelling.
Butter kills? LOLz
I saw one of those shows where Jacques Pepin was cooking with Child and he suggested she go a little lighter on the butter and she laughed, replying, "Do you want to die healthy?" Based.
Marcus B. THEOLDMAN
>>I loved that part of the movie with Julia Child and hated every second of the movie with the other Julie.
Me, too. I say the movie some few yeas ago at a bizarre outdoor screening near the end of Boylston Street in the Fenway, a short distance from Fenway Park. The wind was blowing the outdoor screen all over the place. The Meryl Streep scenes were great. Amy Adams just came across as an annoying bitch.
--gpm
I also meant to say that I watched the French Chef episodes constantly on WGBH back in the 70s and 80s.
--gpm
She died of covid.
She live-tweeted the whole thing. She got sicker and sicker, and then was dead.
Please, anti-vax nutjobs, at least pull your collective heads in with this one.
Here’s the story about the Covid connection:
https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1005890-conspiracy-theories-circulated-after-julie-powells-death-at-49
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I'll confess I am confused on certain points, have gotten over my COVID bout: masking (yes, I'm thinking, just because)? Turns out I shouldn't get the booster for another 3 months. Mysteries everywhere.
https://twitter.com/licjulie?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
My wife has watched the movie probably 8 times. She says the movie is a meditation on marriage. Having watched it 2 or 3 times, I think she is right. Both the leading female characters have husbands who support them. An unusual feature of a hollywood movie.
Not speaking I’ll of the dead, just posting Julia Powell’s own words from last year:
I would argue that COVID does kill some of the right people. The anti-vaxxers/ maskers are dying in legions.
So I’ll save my sympathy for the kids who lost so much of their childhood because of the damaging over-response to the virus.
Please, anti-vax nutjobs, at least pull your collective heads in with this one.
Well, sugar, most of us weren't "anti-vax" "nutjob"s until your ilk started ruining people's lives for declining to take a shitty nonvaccine that doesn't protect anyone from covid and gives people heart attacks
Enjoy living in your penal colony
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