From the first sentence of her 1982 book Cooking of the South, Nathalie Dupree was delectably real and relatable: “When I’m really hungry I want Southern food, because I know it will fill me ...

Sometimes her life was as messy as her kitchen. By Kim Severson Nathalie Dupree, a Southern cookbook author, television personality and culinary mentor whose personal life was sometimes as messy ...

Chef Virginia Willis cooking alongside the late Nathalie Dupree, who loved her Diet Coke. Virginia Willis Now, what I wouldn’t do to clean up one of your flour explosions off a freshly mopped kitchen ...

Willis thought she was a decent home cook when she began an unpaid apprenticeship with Nathalie Dupree, working on a Georgia public television cooking show in the early 1990s. “Nathalie Dupree ...

James Beard Award-winning chef, author, and television personality Nathalie Dupree died on Monday in Raleigh, North Carolina, at 85. Dupree also founded several U.S. chapters of Les Dames d’Escoffier, ...

Nathalie Dupree, a queen in Southern cooking, an author of numerous acclaimed cookbooks and a culinary instructor to generations of cooks and chefs, died Jan. 13, 2025, in Raleigh at age 85. Jason ...