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Julie Powell

1973 - 2022

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Julie Anne Powell (née Foster; April 20, 1973 – October 26, 2022) was an American author known for her 2005 book Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen which was based on her blog, the Julie/Julia Project. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Julie Powell has received more than 2,518,646 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Julie Powell is the 7,009th most popular writer, the 15,732nd most popular biography from United States and the 1,105th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 35.03

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Bodies of Work
2022
Gone
2008
Julie and Julia
Cooking, french, Cooks, biography, Child, julia, 1912-2004
Pushing 30, living in a rundown apartment and working at a dead-end secretarial job, Julie Powell is, in a word, stuck. In her desperate search for an escape, she comes up instead with a deranged assignment - to take Julia Child's 1961 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' and cook all 524 recipes - in a year!
2005
Cleaving
Butchers, Cooks, Psychological aspects of Meat cutting
Julie Powell thought cooking her way through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking was the craziest thing she'd ever do--until she embarked on the voyage recounted in her new memoir, CLEAVING.Her marriage challenged by an insane, irresistible love affair, Julie decides to leave town and immerse herself in a new obsession: butchery. She finds her way to Fleischer's, a butcher shop where she buries herself in the details of food. She learns how to break down a side of beef and French a rack of ribs--tough, physical work that only sometimes distracts her from thoughts of afternoon trysts.The camaraderie at Fleischer's leads Julie to search out fellow butchers around the world--from South America to Europe to Africa . At the end of her odyssey, she has learned a new art and perhaps even mastered her unruly heart.
2009
Cleaving
Cooks, biography, Women, united states, biography, Butchers
Her marriage challenged by an insane, irresistible love affair, Julie decides to leave town and immerse herself in a new obsession: butchery. She finds her way to Fleischer's, a butcher shop where she buries herself in the details of food. She learns how to break down a side of beef and French a rack of ribs - tough, physical work that only sometimes distracts her from thoughts of afternoon trysts. The camaraderie at Fleischer's leads Julie to search out fellow butchers around the world - from South America to Europe to Africa. At the end of her odyssey, she has learned a new art and perhaps even mastered her unruly heart.
2009
Julie and Julia
Anecdotes, cooking, French Cookery
Julie Powell is 30 years old, living in a rundown apartment in Queens and working at a secretarial job that's going nowhere. She needs something to break the monotony of her life, and she invents a deranged assignment. She will cook all 524 recipes in Julia Child's 1961 classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking. In the span of one year. At first she thinks it will be easy, but as she moves from simple potato soup into more complicated realms, she realizes there's more to Mastering the Art than meets the eye. She haunts the local butcher, buying kidneys and sweetbreads. She rarely serves dinner before midnight. She discovers how to mold the perfect Orange Bavarian, the trick to extracting marrow from bone, and the intense pleasure of eating liver. And somewhere along the line she realizes she has eclipsed her life's ordinariness through humor, hysteria, and perseverance.--From publisher description.
2001

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Julie Powell ranks 7,009 out of 7,302. Before her are Merethe Lindstrøm, Dan Savage, Laura Lippman, Edwin O'Connor, Milan Ohnisko, and Patrick Ness. After her are Rutger Bregman, Bryan Konietzko, Michael Savage, Helen Dunmore, Chenjerai Hove, and P. J. O'Rourke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1973, Julie Powell ranks 715. Before her are Kjell N. Lindgren, Katrin Apel, David Prinosil, Pilar Llop, František Kaberle, and Malang Diedhiou. After her are Holly Sampson, Karina Habšudová, Anjelika Krylova, Emanuel Rego, Li Xiaoshuang, and Tomasz Sikora. Among people deceased in 2022, Julie Powell ranks 681. Before her are Steve Wilhite, Robbie Brightwell, Vitalii Skakun, Masato Kudo, Jerry Allison, and Veronica Carlson. After her are P. J. O'Rourke, José Guirao, Technoblade, David Brenner, Valeriy Chybineyev, and Alexandros Nikolaidis.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Julie Powell ranks 15,732 out of 20,380. Before her are Martha Layne Collins (1936), Alexandra Holden (1977), Wayne Sermon (1984), William Frederick Fisher (1946), Shawn Crawford (1978), and Tim McIlrath (1978). After her are Holly Sampson (1973), Irene Bedard (1967), Kathleen Rubins (1978), John Bel Edwards (1966), Oliver Lake (1942), and Bryan Konietzko (1975).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Julie Powell ranks 1,105. Before her are Craig Thomas (1971), Justin Raimondo (1951), Dan Savage (1964), Laura Lippman (1959), Edwin O'Connor (1918), and Patrick Ness (1971). After her are Bryan Konietzko (1975), Michael Savage (1942), P. J. O'Rourke (1947), Paul Beatty (1962), Jon Lee Anderson (1957), and Ruta Sepetys (1967).

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