Willis thought she was a decent home cook when she began an unpaid apprenticeship with Nathalie Dupree, working on a Georgia public television cooking show in the early 1990s. “Nathalie Dupree ...

Nathalie Evelyn Meyer was born on Dec. 23 ... She still cites Ms. Dupree’s pork chop theory of collaboration: If you cook one pork chop in a pan on high heat, it will burn.