Nathalie Dupree
Nathalie Dupree is the best-selling author of fifteen cookbooks and the featured chef on more than 300 television shows for The Food Network, PBS, and The Learning Channel. She has been the subject of articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Chicago Tribune as well as Bon Appétit, Food and Wine, Southern Living, Coastal Living, Better Homes and Gardens, Redbook, Cosmopolitan, and Good Housekeeping.
She has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Morning Show, and CNN Good Morning, among others. Her best-selling book, New Southern Cooking, started an entire culinary movement. She has won the James Beard Award three times, for Southern Memories, Comfortable Entertaining, and Nathalie Dupree’s Mastering the Art of Southern Cooking.
The Founding Chair of the Charleston Food and Wine Festival, she also was a founder of Southern Foodways, the Atlanta and Charleston chapters of Les Dames d’ Escoffier, the American Institute of Wine and Food, and the International Association of Culinary Professionals, of which she twice served as president.
She was awarded the prestigious “Grand Dame” of Les Dames d’Escoffier, an international organization of top women in the culinary field, as well as 2013 Woman of the Year by Les Maîtres Cuisiniers de France USA, a prestigious organization of French chefs in America.
She has written for The Charleston Post and Courier, Charleston Magazine, and The Local Palate. Her husband, Jack Bass, also a member of the SCAA Hall of Fame, is author of nine books on the American South. In 2020, she and Bass left Charleston, where they had lived for over two decades, to move to Raleigh, North Carolina.
She has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Morning Show, and CNN Good Morning, among others. Her best-selling book, New Southern Cooking, started an entire culinary movement. She has won the James Beard Award three times, for Southern Memories, Comfortable Entertaining, and Nathalie Dupree’s Mastering the Art of Southern Cooking.
The Founding Chair of the Charleston Food and Wine Festival, she also was a founder of Southern Foodways, the Atlanta and Charleston chapters of Les Dames d’ Escoffier, the American Institute of Wine and Food, and the International Association of Culinary Professionals, of which she twice served as president.
She was awarded the prestigious “Grand Dame” of Les Dames d’Escoffier, an international organization of top women in the culinary field, as well as 2013 Woman of the Year by Les Maîtres Cuisiniers de France USA, a prestigious organization of French chefs in America.
She has written for The Charleston Post and Courier, Charleston Magazine, and The Local Palate. Her husband, Jack Bass, also a member of the SCAA Hall of Fame, is author of nine books on the American South. In 2020, she and Bass left Charleston, where they had lived for over two decades, to move to Raleigh, North Carolina.