Julie Powell, the food writer best known for her hit memoir "Julie & Julia," has died, her publisher said Tuesday. She was 49.

Powell’s "Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously," released in 2005 and based on a series of her blog posts, was a bestselling hit that chronicled a yearlong journey in which she cooked all 524 recipes in Julia Child’s classic cookbook, "Mastering the Art of French Cooking."