Nathalie Dupree is the bestselling author of 14 cookbooks and host of more than 300 national and international cooking shows. She has been the president of the Atlanta chapter of the International Women's Forum, founder and past president of IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals), founder and board member of Southern Foodways, and founder and co-president of two chapters of Les Dames d’Escoffier by whom she was awarded the honor of Grande Dame. She was the founding president of the Charleston Wine and Food Festival, was named 2013 Woman of the Year from the French Master Chefs of America, and received Slow Food Charleston’s 2016 Snail Award. Her books New Southern Cooking and Mastering the Art of Southern Cooking are on the 2017 Southern Living 100 best cookbooks of all time list. She lives in Charleston.

Cynthia Stevens Graubart, co-author of James Beard Award-winning Mastering the Art of Southern Cooking and Southern Biscuits with Nathalie Dupree, and author of The One-Armed Cook. She produced Nathalie Dupree’s New Southern Cooking, the first nationally distributed series from Georgia Public Television, among many other series during her television career. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.