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Nathalie Dupree's Favorite Stories & Recipes
Personal stories and recipes reveal the culinary journey of the James Beard Award–winning “Queen of Southern Cuisine” (Southern Living). Nathalie Dupree is a storyteller, and in this delightful book she shares her favorite culinary stories, tracing her journey from a budding cook for her college friends through her years as a restaurant cook and cooking instructor. Her activist spirit, humor, feisty personality, and authoritative knowledge of cooking make this a must-have cookbook for everyone who’s watched her on TV, read her articles, or invoked her name in a conversation about Southern food. “In Dupree’s gastronomy, a fine meal is as much about enjoying people as it is marveling at mashed potatoes, though marvel you will.” —Charleston City Paper Includes color photographs
283 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 21, 2020
About the author
Nathalie Dupree
23 books25 followersNathalie Dupree is the Author of eleven cookbooks about the American South, entertaining and basic cooking. She has hosted over 300 television shows on the Food Network, The Learning Channel and PBS. She has been a spokesperson for Wild American Shrimp, The Catfish Institute and many other organizations. She currently writes for The Post And Courier in Charleston, SC, as well as Charleston Magazine and other publications. She has been featured in numerous television shows and publications, from Bobby Flay, the Today Show and Good Morning America to Redbook, Good Housekeeping, Bon Appetit, the New York Times, The Washington Post and others. She ran for the United States Senate against Senator Jim DeMint from South Carolina. She is married and lives in Charleston, S.C. with her husband, Jack Bass.
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August 6, 2020
Nathalie is a natural storyteller and has all the cooking secrets you need to make YOU an authentic Southern cook!
April 21, 2021
I recently read Nathalie Dupree's Favorite Stories and Recipes by Nathalie Dupree, Cynthia Graubart. This book is a kind of a "best of" tale, although I only see one recipe in it that I already have in another volume. Favorites Stories and Recipes is just that it has stories about her life and the food she cooks. I have at least nine of her cookbooks, and I am not a cookbook collector. Frankly there are way too many recipes to be had online, why spend money on a book. I buy these books because they teach you, there are tips, explanations and variations offered throughout each of Nathalie's books. She is a trained chef, restaurant owner, teacher, and tv show cooking host and you really reap the benefit of her experience. It would be so easy to take advantage of her following and just put out great recipes but her books go the extra mile and that's why I buy them. I actually learn.
Years ago when I was first married, I couldn't cook. I literally had to call my mother to find out how to make a baked potato. You wash the potato, put it in the oven and bake it. You test to see if it's soft by sticking it with a fork. I did that and it exploded in my face, all over my clothes and the oven. You actually have to poke them before baking or kaboom. My mother left that out. While she found it quite funny, I realized I REALLY knew nothing about cooking if I couldn't chuck something in the oven and turn it on and be successful. During that time Nathalie Dupree was on PBS every Saturday morning with a cooking show. Not only was she talking about what she was doing but she told you why. One time she mentioned the amount of money that is spent learning to play golf, reasoning that learning to cook was just that...learning...and a bad pie crust was a small amount of money to pay for a successful future.
Today, I can cook almost anything and I owe that to Nathalie Dupree. Favorite Stories and Recipes is a book filled with stories, recipes and beautiful, large color photos. Honestly, you can't go wrong with any of her books. You will learn loads, get a interesting book to actually read (not just reference) and get some great workable recipes too.
Years ago when I was first married, I couldn't cook. I literally had to call my mother to find out how to make a baked potato. You wash the potato, put it in the oven and bake it. You test to see if it's soft by sticking it with a fork. I did that and it exploded in my face, all over my clothes and the oven. You actually have to poke them before baking or kaboom. My mother left that out. While she found it quite funny, I realized I REALLY knew nothing about cooking if I couldn't chuck something in the oven and turn it on and be successful. During that time Nathalie Dupree was on PBS every Saturday morning with a cooking show. Not only was she talking about what she was doing but she told you why. One time she mentioned the amount of money that is spent learning to play golf, reasoning that learning to cook was just that...learning...and a bad pie crust was a small amount of money to pay for a successful future.
Today, I can cook almost anything and I owe that to Nathalie Dupree. Favorite Stories and Recipes is a book filled with stories, recipes and beautiful, large color photos. Honestly, you can't go wrong with any of her books. You will learn loads, get a interesting book to actually read (not just reference) and get some great workable recipes too.
September 15, 2020
I enjoy half of her cookbooks
I think her Turkey with Gravy recipe seems like a pretty good recipe and its relatively straightforward.
I think this book was pretty much half of here fave old recipes with half new recipes, to celebrate her 80th birthday
Turkey with Gravy
one Turkey [probably essential]
onions
carrots
herbs like thyme rosemary sage
one quartered lemon
tons and tons of butter
oil for the pan
chicken stock or turkey stock
heavy cream
black pepper
salt
basting liquid consisting of:
white wine
butter
thyme
sage
bay leaf
Gibbs Smith 2019, Hardcover
I think her Turkey with Gravy recipe seems like a pretty good recipe and its relatively straightforward.
I think this book was pretty much half of here fave old recipes with half new recipes, to celebrate her 80th birthday
Turkey with Gravy
one Turkey [probably essential]
onions
carrots
herbs like thyme rosemary sage
one quartered lemon
tons and tons of butter
oil for the pan
chicken stock or turkey stock
heavy cream
black pepper
salt
basting liquid consisting of:
white wine
butter
thyme
sage
bay leaf
Gibbs Smith 2019, Hardcover
May 3, 2021
One of my favorite cook book authors.
June 25, 2021
Still very relevant
Stories are humorous and endearing with recipes that stand the test of time. Loved her PBS series. Very down to earth which is helpful to the home cook.
Stories are humorous and endearing with recipes that stand the test of time. Loved her PBS series. Very down to earth which is helpful to the home cook.
August 11, 2021
Interesting stories, the food was not as interesting.
November 13, 2021
Nathalie strikes me as being real & has a well-balanced life. Love low country cuisine & Southern hospitality.
August 9, 2020
I will always try recipes in this book every time I see the mashed potatoes on the cover!!
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