Background

Julia Anne Foster was born and raised in Austin, Texas. After graduating from Austin High School, she moved to Amherst, Massachusetts to attend Amherst College, a private liberal arts college.  She graduated with a double major in 1995 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in theater and dance and fiction writing. Amherst is located 95 miles west of Boston.

Living in a small flat in New York and feeling stuck in a job she literally hated, Julie Powell felt her life had little meaning. One evening while shopping at the Korean Food Market, she saw a couple of things that she had seen depicted in Julia Child's amazing cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking. That was the birth of her historic and laborious Cooking and Blog project called “Julie/Julia”.  The goal was to cook all 524 recipes in one year; 365 days to prepare 524 recipes, which is once per day, and an extra three recipes over the weekend.

Writing Career

Julie’s writing has been published in a number of magazines like Bon Appétit, House Beautiful, Food and Wine, Washington Post, The New York Times, Harper's Bazaar, and Archaeology Magazine.

In 2002, when Julie was 29 years old, she began her outstanding site, "The Julie/Julia Project,”. At that time, she had to handle telephone calls at LMDC with respect to the results of the terrorist attack in 2001 at the World Trade Centre in New York. Julie began her project work with all the positives of directing her energy to prepare and offer hard effort. The site chronicled Julie’s passion to set up every one of the dishes described in Julia Child's exemplary cookbook guide, Mastering French Cooking Art, in just a single year.

She got national recognition for her project, "The Julie/Julia,". Nora Ephron composed and directed a 2009 culinary drama, Julie and Julia, inspired by Powell's work. Powell successfully released a second novel after Julie and Julia naming it “Cleaving".  It was focused on marriage, meat, butchery and obsession. After experiencing butcher behavior in New York City and then later in the Catskills, she tuned herself to write this second book. Julie’s time spent there kept motivating her to write a book in which she combined the concepts of butchery, marriage, and obsession.

During the apprenticeship at Fleisher's, she chopped cut, cleaved, , sliced and, hammered her way through masses of meat. She got splashed in blood, nurtured big muscles, and showed that she has what it takes to make it, as a woman in a world dominated by man especially in the butcher profession. At the same time, she went on a zealous, red-blooded extramarital affair that endangered her marriage with Eric Powell, and, at times, her saneness and stability.

Julie Powell every now and again conjured Julia Child's journey to her magnificent profession, as she herself looked out for a more important utilization of her natural God gifted talents. In spite of the prominence of Powell's blog, Julia Child herself did not yet understand Julie Powell, portraying her sublime project as a trick without any actual culinary talent.