Did Julie Powell and Julia Child meet?

Julie Powell, a chef and author who documented her efforts to prepare every recipe in Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” which later inspired the movie “Julie & Julia,” died Oct. 26 at her home in New York at age 49.

Her sudden demise was confirmed by her husband of over two decades, Eric Powell who revealed that she died of cardiac arrest.

Did Julie Powell and Julia Child meet?

Surprisingly, Julie Powell and Julia Child never met.

More so, though she knew about Powell’s blog, Child didn’t just like it.

According to Cheatsheet, Child told her editor, Judith Jones, “I don’t think she’s [Julie Powell] a serious cook.”

According to Child’s editor, Child did not want to endorse Powell’s book, Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen, and felt she was cooking for the sake of a stunt.

Child felt Powell was cooking as a stunt because Powell never really described the end results or what she learned from the experience. Jones also exclaimed that she and Child found cursing while cooking unattractive.