Julie of Julie and Julia fame dies at 49

49 is young to die of cardiac arrest right?

Hated that movie based on her blog. Streep is miscast.

Sorry that this lady died so young.

Very very sad. I love Julie and Julia. RIP

Was her husband as hot as Chris Messina was in the movie? He might need a shoulder to cry on

That's pretty young for cardiac arrest. I wonder what happened

R1, when I was a kid a couple kids parents died of heart attack and they seemed ancient than but now that I'm closer to that age I realize that they were pretty young.

There are a lot of people dropping dead of stroke or heart attack lately. I remember the first one that shocked me was Grant Imahara from "Mythbusters," also 49 years old if I recall, who had a sudden stroke for no reason.

Some of it could be hereditary. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in women.

I think I want to resee the movie because I thought she was whiny and annoying and I may have been too rough on her. that could have just been how Amy Adams played her.

Its covid. ......

[quote] I think I want to resee the movie because I thought she was whiny and annoying and I may have been too rough on her. that could have just been how Amy Adams played her.

Rewatching the movie won't help.

Wow, that's pretty shocking.

Her story was unique, and she gained fame in an unlikely way.

Well, at least it was unlikely back in the early 2000's.

Sad.

She'd be alive today if she hadn't made all those butter-heavy Child recipes.

Welcome, Dr. Oz.

[quote]Hated that movie based on her blog. Streep is miscast.

I agree. Viola Davis would have been much better as Julia Child.

My favorite cousin died at 45 of a heart attack. But, he was a smoker and a hard driving type-A personality.

My grandfather (also a smoker) died in the 1960s in his early 50s.

Moral of the lesson- don’t smoke, kids.

Damn. I loved the book and film.

I thought she came across as a real pill in her book and the movie (and she cheated on her husband). But way too young, of course.

Sweet movie. Streep was amazing in it as always, you forgot she didn't look like Julia. Sad news.

She lived in the United States where medical care is a joke, especially for women. medical care in the United States general is a joke for everybody. It’s easy for a person to fall through the cracks because they don’t have a diagnosis that stops the progression of some pathological disease process that could be reversed with treatment. And the reason that they don’t have a diagnosis is because of the gatekeeping that occurs at the more basic levels of the medical system that is highly discriminatory.

So the response of my intelligent cousin was to pay out-of-pocket to a company called request a test. She then presented her information that documented her medical situation during her appointment. The nurse and the doctor went wide eyed and both of their jaws dropped. They then said to her“ how are you allowed to get an order testing for yourself?!?!!!” They were angry when she paid for things herself and then told her they couldn’t help her. It’s all about liability containment and killing patients is legal in the name of liability containment for physicians.

It doesn’t really matter what type of illness it was, the US medical system is structured to ration care via specific mechanisms. some of these mechanisms are clearly pseudoscientific. my eyes were opened when I went to the doctor with my female cousin as an advocate. she had gotten to the point of avoiding doctors and didn’t go to the doctor for seven years. So I told her that I was willing to go. My cousin is disabled with peripheral neuropathy and she works full-time and is very responsible and has a difficult job that she does well.

I was completely astounded to see the doctor stand up look her in the eye and look down at her (after reading in her chart it says that she has to use a wheelchair because of neuromuscular disease) and say “if you don’t get out of that wheelchair you’re going to have blood clots.” I was shocked. He then took me aside and told me out of hearing range for her ( she is hard of hearing) “I am canceling her ear surgery because she is just old”

My cousin is a healthy 52. I am a physical therapist. I’ve been to conferences where medical doctors stand up in front of an entire conference and state that “women are unable to cope with stress because they have no Y chromosome, and all of the genes that help a person cope with stress are on the Y chromosome. “

That makes me feel like they’re dabbling in fascist propaganda with that kind of rhetoric towards females. I could just walk into a medical facility and have my word taken as true. She is unable to do that, and I saw it firsthand, and keep in mind she works at a university as a veterinary scientist so it’s not like she’s a deadbeat.

Tina Turner was intelligent to move out of the United States when she got older.

She lived. She used the life's work of an American icon for her own self-aggrandizement. She was present.

I'll be singing at her funeral.

It was all that fucking butter!

R20 your post is intelligent and true but why post it on DL? If you think a bunch of gay men give a shit about sexism in the medical industry you are mistaken.

I can't imagine, R5

Thanks, Sylvia. Heart attacks and strokes= covid

Wow! Shocking. I liked the Julia Child part of the movie but not the other half. I read about the real story behind her blog and it’s pretty interesting. Her relationship with her husband was troubled— seem to remember she was having an affair during the writing of the blog.

Anyway, very sad. I like seeing success stories like hers.

This is sad. I enjoyed the premise of the movie

According to her twitter she recently had covid and then a “black hairy tongue.” A fungal infection?

Yep. Covid is causing FUNGAL INFECTION.

This is why I am gonna miss using Twitter.

This is another account who reported of having a fungal infection after being infected with covid.

Very young to die of cardiac arrest. Sad.

[quote]"I worked very hard on that book," the chef told Parsons. "I tested and retested those recipes for eight years so that everybody could cook them. And many, many people have. I don't understand how she could have problems with them. She just must not be much of a cook."

[quote]The film drew attention to both Powell's and Child's works. Powell's book sold over 1 million copies, and the film made Child a New York Times best-seller, according to the outlet.

Julie singlehandedly thrust Julia Child back into the spotlight who was mostly irrelevant by the time the book and movie came out. Child's comment is pretty bitchy. The whole point is that someone who isn't a chef could, in fact, do her recipes. Compared to actual chefs' recipes and technique, Julia Child is the reader's digest version of War and Peace.

I'm not a particular fan of Julie, but c'mon. Graciousness goes a long way in this world.

Julia Child refused to meet with Julie Powell, JC thought JP was not a serious cook.

[quote]Julia Child refused to meet with Julie Powell, JC thought JP was not a serious cook.

Was Julia Child reputed to be a nice person or a raving bitch?

I can't imagine refusing to meet someone who clearly had such high regard for you and your life's work.

If one takes pepto bismol they will have a black hairy tongue.

Julia Child was pretty old at the time Julie Powell started cooking her recipes. I'd say JC was curmudgeonly, not sure about raving bitch. Not to bring up a sore spot, but she was no Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Julia was a drama-free gal who laughed when she made mistakes. Julie was the exact opposite. JC thought Julie was trading on her name. She was but she was also deeply in awe of her..

Julia had come out with an affordable paperback PBS cookbook .that included 60 or so recipes from her shows. Thousands of women and men cooked their way through the book without an audience, time limits and fanfare.

Just a generational clash. Nothing to see here.

[quote] 49 is young to die of cardiac arrest right?

Butter

This is the book that popularized Julia's work and that fans by the droves cooked their way through.

Not as daunting as "The Art of French Cooking" I and II. What Julie attempted was a lot more daunting, but Julia didn't think she deserved a medal for cooking her recipes.

Julie and that movie paved the way for the Julia Child revival today.

I watched Julia Childs and Jacque Pepin for years on PBS

[quote]This is another account who reported of having a fungal infection after being infected with covid.

Someone compiled a few of her tweets over the past couple of months.

She got COVID at the end of September, was sick on and off since then, and the tongue thing happened a few days ago.

Usually I don't blame everything on COVID but the fact that she was so young and still sick from *something* makes me think it probably was the culprit.

A great movie for fatties!

R41, the other account holder goes deep into the weeds about covid, specifically testing. He goes so deep I lost interest. But I remembered the fungal thing

Covid is an airbourne viral infection presenting as a respiratory infection that damages the vascular system. Younger people are having strokes and heart attacks.

I blame covid when I read of younger people stroking out or dying of heart attack, suddenly.

John Fetterman looks like what Americas will look going forward.

r44 is Dr. Oz

[quote] If one takes pepto bismol they will have a black hairy tongue.

r35 Not to mention black poop.

Dr Oz is a doctor who sold a treatment unintended to treat covid, although he's vaccinated.

Dr Oz thinks it is appropriate to mock someone recovering from a stroke.

He's unfit to serve as a Senator or a Dr.

“Cardiac arrest” is not the same thing as a heart attack, and it can be the result of MANY causes.

And Fetterman’s stroke was caused by A-fib, not Covid.

[quote]So the response of my intelligent cousin was to pay out-of-pocket to a company called request a test.

There's much about our medical system that needs to be overhauled in the United States, especially when it comes to how women patients are treated. But I'd caution against wasting time and money ordering your own labs in most cases.

Even with Google's assistance, patients often order the wrong stuff, or it yields meaningless incidental findings that send them down the wrong path. Selection and interpretation of useful labs typically isn't as easy as glancing at a test description on Labcorp's website. And physicians will often reorder labs to verify whatever you brought them if it was a DIY project, further increasing your expenses.

Here it is.

She likely had underlying, undiagnosed heart problems which became symptomatic during Covid.

Thanks, r50. Younger people are dropping dead and stroking out right now. Their families won't identify the cause of death which only amplifies pro-covid and anti-vaccination voices.

It's troubling to hear about cases like Julie's. Besides the black tongue, she was complaining about lower body pain, specifically her butt, knees and a big blister on her foot. It sounds like her dr downplayed the tongue thing. According to her Twitter, she came down with covid on 9/11, got a little better and then had a reoccurring viral episode in Oct. She thought it was the regular flu on the second go around. Awful. I really enjoyed the book and the movie. I loved that she visited the JC PBS kitchen at the Smithsonian and left a stick of butter on the counter.

Wtf were they cooking up in that Chinese lab?!?

R5- Maybe it's Covid related.

We have no way of knowing exactly what caused Julie Powell’s cardiac arrest.

However, we’ve known that SARS-CoV-2 infection can post-acute infection clinical sequelae—including severe cardiovascular injury—for more than two years.

The CDC needs to be investigating these events

This will always be Julia Child for me.

She made a great sea bass but she couldn't live forever.

sad..

Wasn't she a particular DLer's hated friend?

I give Julie a lot of points. Child went to cooking school in France and while she tested her recipes extensively to make sure they worked, that didn’t mean they were easy for beginners. The other thing is that Powell’s life was somewhat bookended by tragedy. She started the original blog in 2002 when she was working in the NYC government office handling post 9/11 rebuilding and dealing with the aftermath of the attack every day at the office. Even the NYT obit neglected to mention that. Then, if indeed Covid led to her death, another misfortune.

The blog is on the Wayback machine,

For whatever reason, she captured the Gen X imagination by creating a challenge that built her an audience amd a livelihood. She demonstrated the power of blogging. If I admire her for any reason, that would be it. . She was cooking after work, when most of us are beat and you don't get to eat until 10. serving up fattening and expensive food night after night and doing it in a small kitchen without a lot of equipment. She also used the 2-volume set rather than the TV book, which scales recipe in terms of complexity and teaches a lot of basic technique. In other words, she made this much harder for herself and stressful than she had to,

I think she perverted Julia Child's approach to cooking, which was that it was a source of joy and about feeding people. Julie made home cooking seem like an episode of "The Bear."

Drugs. Trust me. Michael Jackson died of "cardiac arrest" at 50.

The hairy black tongue the day before sounds concerning.

All those recipes ask for a 1/4 cup of lard. Use your imagination.

She left NYC to become a butcher in the Catskill Mountains.

[quote] She left NYC to become a butcher in the Catskill Mountains.

She was a lesbian?

Brain imaging of some people who have been infected with covid indicates brain size decreasing.

Yup, brain SHRINKAGE.

R4, no, he was/is not. On her right here.

Another

R29 "black hairy tongue" was among the listed side effects of some prescription meds I took when I had chickenpox. I remember because I asked my doctor about it. It sounded horrendous. Anyway, it's a disease.

[quote] Besides the black tongue, she was complaining about lower body pain, specifically her butt, knees and a big blister on her foot. It sounds like her dr downplayed the tongue thing. According to her Twitter, she came down with covid on 9/11, got a little better and then had a reoccurring viral episode in Oct.

Obviously a sad story, but the boosters likely extended her life and minimized severe pain.

Just watched an episode of 'One Day At A Time' today from December, 1979 (Season 5) where Ann Romano suffered what is believed to be a heart attack. Her daughters visit her in the hospital (along with Schneider) and the female doctor explains that heart attacks are very rare for women - especially women of Ann's age (late 30s). She also explains that Ann had 'cardiac arrest' which is different than a heart attack. She explains that 'cardiac arrest is just a shock to the heart' with no damage done to the heart. She tells Ann she will be just fine - if she learns to 'control her anxiety' and learns to 'relax more'.

Boy, times have changed in the past 43 years - heart attacks are rare for women ?

And by the way - am I the only one who found 'Max' (actor Michael Lembeck) one of the sexiest guys on TV back then ?

And yet that bitch Bonnie kept jogging to answer the door!

I'm surprised it didn't happen again when she slapped Alex.

R20 where did your cousin get her tests? And which ones?

Jabbed and boosted to the hilt with the bioweapon. Then she succumbed.

R27 I feel like I'm one of a handful of people who actually enjoyed the Julie scenes more than the Julia ones. Meryl Streep's Julia Child impression grates on my nerves whenever I watch that movie. I'm sad to hear about Julie's death. It's just another reminder that young, old, rich, poor whatever, your time can come at any moment so make sure your affairs are in order.

This guy, Jamie, has a "Jamie and Julia" YouTube channel where he cooks her recipes.

Did anyone else read Cleaving about her cheating on her husband?

I liked only the "Julia" part of "Julie and Julia." The character based on her wasn't interesting and the blog did indeed sound like a stunt.

Was she double boosted and then struck with covid? This pattern is everywhere.

Yes r78, and I loved it!! Truly fascinating read.

But Julie of the Wolves is fine and still alive?

[quote] And by the way - am I the only one who found 'Max' (actor Michael Lembeck) one of the sexiest guys on TV back then ?

No. No, you are not.

The people saying she died so young because of Julia Child's recipes ignore the very long life of Julia herself.

Is covid induced heart attack an antivax meme or is it real?

Do yourselves a favor and don't look up black furry tongue.

R86, ironically, Julia Child has a delectable recipe for black furry tongue a l'Orange.

Vaccine-induced embolism and myocarditis are real. There are a few published studies on Pubmed NCBI for you fat vaxx nazis to read and enlighten your fat self.

Someone I'm FB friends with knew her and said she had issues with booze and depression. Her second book not selling well hit her hard.

R88, sounds like the effects of COVID, not the vaccine were in play. Since the virus mutates, the vaccines have limited efficacy.

What's really sad about morons like you is that you have no sense of how protected you are living among a population that is widely vaccinated. You're a hothouse plant who thinks he's living in a desert on his own

Shut the F up about butter, the real Julia lived into her 90's with lots and lots of butter. 40 more years of eating it than this writer ever did.

I'm so goddamned relieved to hear someone speak for the butter. I was starting to get scared.

OP, your title should have been, “Julie Powell of ‘Julie and Julia’ fame is DEAD to me!”

R24, Why are YOU posting here then?

She seemed lovely

So read a review of her follow up Cleaving. Oy vey. Looked like a train wreck.

Oof.

I'm tired of people with zero scientific or epidemiological training or background pontificating as though they know everything about the virus or its vaccines. This is true of both sides.

Even actual experts know relatively little, after two and a half years. That's scary, but it's the truth that we must face and deal with. Pretending to know everything is divisive, counterproductive, and really fucking irritating.

Someone upthread mentions Julie made Julia Child relevant again after her star had faded. That's ridiculous, it's not as if a great chef is Madonna, in need of a comeback. True culinary artists aren't just pop stars (except for a few from the Food Network) and if you really care about cooking, you study methods and recipes of the recent past along with what is currently popular.

Meryl Streep looked ridiculous in her attempt to emulate Child’s physical appearance. Julia was an Amazon with long legs and arms; Streep had to stand on something that made her look taller, but her arms were too short to pull it off. Same with her stab at sounding like Julia Child. As bad as, if not worse, than Will Smith’s terrible impersonation of Muhammad Ali.

Never heard of the woman who passed away, never saw the film. Very familiar with Julia Childs who lived a long, interesting life.

Educated, accomplished.

"For a year, she worked at the OSS Emergency Sea Rescue Equipment Section (ESRES) in Washington, D.C. as a file clerk and then as an assistant to developers of a shark repellent needed to ensure that sharks would not explode ordnance targeting German U-boats."

From 1944–1945, she was posted to Kandy, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), where her responsibilities included "registering, cataloging and channeling a great volume of highly classified communications" for the OSS's clandestine stations in Asia.

She was later posted to Kunming, China, where she received the Emblem of Meritorious Civilian Service as head of the Registry of the OSS Secretariat.[

When Child was asked to solve the problem of too many OSS underwater explosives being set off by curious sharks, "Child's solution was to experiment with cooking various concoctions as a shark repellent," which were sprinkled in the water near the explosives and repelled sharks.

Still in use today, the experimental shark repellent "marked Child's first foray into the world of cooking."

I remember she was saying that Julia Child did 't like her blog. An I oftened wondered why.

R101

Julia Child thought the blog was a stunt, a device to gain attention, and that Julie was piggybacking on her hard work and fame. Child was annoyed that Julie was having problems because she and her staff had worked for years to test the recipes so that inexperienced cooks could succeed with them. Julie also made the task harder by not using the Child book keyed to her TV series, which gradually built skills. She jumped into the two-volume book Child, Beck, and I think a third author wrote.

Of Julie, one person sees an enthusiastic, youngish woman in a depressing job giving her life some purpose. Another sees a parasite hoping to benefit by copying an established chef and celebrity.

I think both are true.

[quote]I watched Julia Childs

Oh, dear. I'll bet you say Sally FIELDS, too.

[quote]Very familiar with Julia Childs

Apparently not.

Chile, please^.

I love you, R105

Her 2nd book, "Cleaving," sounds awful. It's autobiographical and *she* sounds awful. What a selfish, drama queen. Hate to use an overused term, but she sounds like a narcissist. Her husband must be a masochist. I hope he inherited her book royalties.

Maybe Julia Child picked up on that.

R96, thanks for posting the book review.

Sorry to hear she died so young. The film was enjoyable as lighter fare.

Why her husband wanted to stick around after everything she did to him (it's all in Cleaving, and yikes!), is shocking. Regardless, very sad that she passed so young and suddenly.

Could be due to Covid. Inflames the heart. Expect more of these middle aged deaths.

I don't know why, but this girl's death has got me shook about Covid. Don't read the comments section on the DM.

Why Julia Childs wouldn’t care for the blog of a frazzled Gen-Zer who considered Buffy The Vampire Slayer manual for living is anyone’s guess.

Her last tweet: tongue turned black and hairy

Someone upthread mentioned fungal infection

It's horrible that anybody would die so young, but she also seemed to be a pretty awful person. The reviews of Cleaving made her sound like a complete horror show.

It was clearly the cuckolded husband who added a dollop of arsenic in her cassoulet.

She seems to have rather a lot of rage

That could be bad for one’s heart

A sweet response, but a little too late to reach Julie

Savage

Incel humor= waste of time

was/were are now pronouns?🤔

R120: I think the person was being ironic

Macabre

Cute millionaire brother-in-law

The incel was trying to be funny with the pronoun thing.

You know a 49-year-old woman isn't Gen Z, right?

r112 See r104.

Her name was CHILD, not Childs.

Why did she have to mention that her BIL is a millionaire?

She looks like Lens Dunham in her Twitter photo. She's also oversharing and attention-seeking like Lens. The scab on her leg, black hairy tongue.

Yeah, not sure why she had to say BIL is a millionaire.

That tweet arguing for "slaughtering white people in the streets" in R116 was still live when she died. Wouldn't a sane person delete it?

That is one hairy leg for a 50 year old woman.

R127: it’s definitely bragging, but I as a voyeuristic Social Media consumer, almost always welcome titbits/info/intel like that

Gossip can be construed as a special form of transparency/disclosure and should be welcomed in democratic societies

Of course you’ll have to trust the consumer to be able to tell information from misinformation, but that’s a basic premise of Free Speech so

Dear hubby

Word

One of her most controversial tweets

What an insufferable cunt.

Maybe this 🤔

R136: OMG the stats are frightening in that letter

And the letter was c/c-ed to DL Fave Senator Jon Ossoff

Wonder if he has responded since then

For somebody who had a very popular blog back in the early days of blogging and a NYT bestseller that became a hit movie, she had virtually no engagement on her social media... at least until she died. Ten likes and no comments?

Of course, she was a horrible person, but many very horrible people are quite popular on social media.

R139 her follow up book Cleaving was released in 2009.

Lens Dunham’s Girls was released in 2012. Given how solipsistic that book is, and how female literary pop culture became, she was 3 years ahead of the hipster curve and was too much of an asshole to socialise with the right people to get back into it.

I assume her last thoughts were ones of joy and accomplishment, since she thought murdering all white people "would be a totally sound decision."

It's wonderful that she decided to lead the way by dying nice and young.

I was neutral about her death but, as I've read more of the thread, I find myself positively happy that she's now worm food. Sounds like Julia Chyles had her number!

And I hope that reading "Julia Chyles" didn't cause too many of you ladies to stroke out.

Seems she was pretty unlikable . I wonder if her cuck hubby killed her.

Julia was a hell of a smart cookie. A TV pioneer with a nearly half-century career in a famously fickle medium -- and, during WWII, a member of the OSS.

I bet she could smell the grift off this bitch from a mile away.

White liberals complaining “white people- am I right?” is a very Dubya-era mindset.

Another hipster-back-to-basics NYC food influencer died last year: Anne Saxelby of Saxelby Cheesemongers.

Her whole thing was artisanal cheese.

She died of a heart condition.

Omg

The Julia part of the movie should have been expanded and the Julie sections shortened

I distrust white people who say they hate white people in general just like I distrust self hatin Uncle Toms. Are they saying it to get points?

She was clearly NOT the charming quirky character in the movie.

40 is kinda young to drop dead of a heart condition, its covid to blame

Here is another sudden death of heart attack

it doesn't say "sudden death of heart attack"

oops sorry yes it does

I would pay to watch a sequel. How did the sweet, wholesome girl in OP's photo turn into a monster openly advocating for genocide?

The "hairy black tongue" scenes could win Amy Adams that Oscar.

She sounded terribly self centered and neurotic.

Covid or cocaine?

whoopsie!

Except we don’t know jack shit about what her overall health was like. Good job fear mongering though.

[quote] Except we don’t know jack shit about what her overall health was like.

Her doctors said the tongue was no concern, but did she get a HIV test?

The furry black tongue is common in AIDS patients. This may have nothing to do with COVID.

At R146, I don't see that cheesemonger being some type of equivalent to Julie. Just because they're both women? I think it would be cool to have a cheese shop in my neighborhood. I like cheeses and it would have been nice to try some of those small-batch cheeses.

The cucked husband deserves every penny of that estate.

The incels have arrived. Gay incels. And I am out.

They didn’t have any children, did they? That would complicate things.

As usual, Chris Messina was the only thing worth watching in the whole movie. Forget Julia and Julie, I want to taste HIS beef bourguignon.

Nice bump there, Bump Bitch at R165.

R20 many European countries ration care more than America does.

R167, R20's troll comment is the only comment in her troll post history, meaning it was a hit-and-run troll who deleted cookies [italic]early last November,[/italic] [bold]two and a half months ago[/bold] when she made it. Nice of you to join the convo, finally.

This troll thread is full of off topic misinformation about covid. A magat's dream. R165 probably sucks on Trump's damp diapers.

Yes, covid causes blood vessel inflammation that is known to lead to MI and stroke as posted in R25. No, the vaccine doesn't do this. In young men mostly and rarely, some vaccines produce self-reversing cardiomyopathy.

Finally (for me because I can't take anymore bullshit propaganda), R136 links to a Russian website with what we are to believe is a real letter. It doesn't matter, because it was written by one of Trump's biggest diaper suckers, Ron Johnson.

This entire thread needs to be nuked from space.

Furry dark tongue is considered a benign condition, not a symptom of GRIDs, as magat R160 claims.

Julia Child's issue with Powell's blog was probably, as an old person, she simply didn't see the point.

And R162, he's no Chris Watts. Neither in attractiveness nor in longsuffering.

Finally,

Some heart conditions, such as valve issues and arrhythmias, sometimes present at birth, and can lead to cardiac arrest at a relatively young age. Since some the conditions might go unnoticed and untreated, the death can be quite unexpected.

Or as R168 says, let’s nuke this thread form space, especially for the antivax trolls who only know science when it suits them.

I was nodding in agreement with your sensible post R168 but then you had to go and fellate that monster Watts. Shame on you.

r168, r20 is also in the "For days when you're too beat to cook" so this wasn't a "hit and run troll post."

We don't really get "hit and run" trolls on DL because you either have to spend a week logging in before you can post IF there's no Primetime, or you pay to post. No one is going to pay $1.99 just to post one long rant about their friends having trouble with doctors.