Chapel Hill author Spring Council grew up shaped by family kitchens, the art of setting a table, and the push for equal rights.

Southern culinary legend Nathalie Dupree died Jan. 13 at age 85 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Dupree was a celebrated cookbook author and TV host who championed Southern food and women in the culinary ...

Nathalie Dupree was famously guided by a principle known as the "pork chop theory." One pork chop in a pan goes dry, but two or more and the fat from one feeds the other, she was known to say. That ...

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The culinary world lost a Southern icon with the passing of Nathalie Dupree. Over the years, the James Beard Award-winning chef, cookbook author and television personality became a mentor to food and ...

There are recipes for okra fritters, blackened catfish and benne wafers in Rebecca Lang’s new cookbook, but there’s not a word about fried chicken. While Lang discovered many dishes could be executed ...

Senior Lifestyle Editor, Ivy Odom, shares a first look at her new cookbook, My Southern Kitchen. I was born and raised in rural South Georgia, and the house where I grew up was always a party. Our ...

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When Southern Women Cook: History, Lore, and 300 Recipes with Contributions from 70 Women Writers by America’s Test Kitchen’s Toni Tipton-Martin & Morgan Bolling. A first-of-its-kind Southern cookbook ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – A culinary figure, dubbed the “Queen of Southern Cooking” by Southern Living, has died at age 85. Nathalie Dupree authored more than a dozen southern-style cookbooks ...