Nathalie Dupree, ‘Queen of Southern Cooking,’ Dies at 85

Nathalie Dupree, a Southern cookbook author, television personality and culinary mentor whose personal life was sometimes as messy as her kitchen and whose keen interest in literature and politics gave birth to biscuit-fueled salons and a quixotic run for the U.S. Senate, died on Monday in Raleigh, N.C. She was 85.Her death, in a skilled nursing center she had entered after she broke her hip, was confirmed by…