Julie of "Julie and Julia" fame in Tulsa tonight
Julie Powell, author of “Julie & Julia,” will be in Tulsa tonight to raise food for Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma.
Powell, an Austin, Texas,-native who wrote the famous Julie/Julia Project blog that became the impetus for the book and film, will sign and discuss her new book, “Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat and Obsession.”
That book, which went on sale Dec. 1,
details the aftermath of her blogging fame and subsequent problems that befell her marriage.
Powell will be present at 7 p.m. at the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma Culinary Center, 1304 N. Kenosha Ave.
In 2002, Powell embarked on an ambitious yearlong cooking and blogging expedition through all 524 recipes in Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking.” She detailed the experience first in blog form in what she called “The Julie/Julia Experiment.” That blog turned into the 2005 New York Times bestselling memoir, “Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously.” Nora Ephron directed the film adaptation, “Julie and Julia,” which starred Meryl Streep and Amy Adams, that was released in August. The DVD is due in stores Tuesday.
