Nathalie Dupree

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Nathalie Dupree, born Nathalie Meyer on December 23, 1939, in Hamilton, New Jersey, was an American chef, author, and TV host who popularized Southern cooking. She studied at Le Cordon Bleu in London, where Julia Child encouraged her to teach. She ran Nathalie's, a restaurant in Social Circle, Georgia, and later directed a cooking school at Rich's in Atlanta, teaching thousands. Her PBS show New Southern Cooking with Nathalie Dupree launched her national profile, followed by eight more series. She wrote 15 cookbooks, sold nearly a million copies, and appeared on Today and Good Morning America. Dupree won four James Beard Awards and helped start the International Association of Culinary Professionals; she led Les Dames d'Escoffier chapters in Atlanta and Charleston and helped start the Charleston Food and Wine Festival. She lived in Charleston in the late 1990s, wrote a column, and advocated for Southern dining. She married Jack Bass in 1994 (previously married to David Dupree). She ran a write-in campaign for the U.S. Senate in 2010. In 2020 she moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, to be near family, and died January 13, 2025, at age 85 after a broken hip.