


Russ Parsons
Aiming for Julia's glory?
Aiming for Julia's glory?

Julia Child had a problem in 1960. After spending much of the previous decade wrestling a book of French recipes for Americans into shape, she was stuck on what to call it. Suggestions, 45 or so, came and went without a winner. Finally, Judith Jones, her editor at Knopf, struck proverbial gold with "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," and the book was published in 1961. Fast-forward about 50 years. Nathalie Dupree was wondering if she had a problem. It wasn't that her new cookbook lacked a name; it had one: "Mastering the Art of Southern Cooking." "It was terrifying," Dupree recalls of the choice. Now, the Charleston, S.C.-based Dupree is no newbie....