Buttermilk Cream Biscuits and Grits Cooked in the Microwave
[Nathalie Dupree, the undisputed Grande Dame of Southern Cooking, died on Monday, 13 January 2025, at the age of 85.]
Nathalie Dupree was the big sister I never had. And while I was never one of her "chickens" (her nickname for the many young interns and students that she mentored), over the more than thirty years that we knew one another, she was indeed a mentor that I was lucky enough with time to know as my colleague and friend.
Our acquaintance began when I was still trying to practice architecture while working on my first cookbook. I'd written to her about her then new book Read More
