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Mildred "Mama Dip" Council cooked in Chapel Hill for decades, in the Carolina dining hall, fraternities, faculty homes, the Carolina Inn and UNC Memorial Hospital, before taking over a failing Rosemary Street restaurant in 1976 with $40 for food and $24 for change. Mama Dip's Kitchen became part of Chapel Hill's Northside neighborhood.
Source: UNC-Chapel Hill (University Gazette): Mama Dip celebrates 40 years in the restaurant business
1929–2018 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster as Mildred "Mama Dip" Council → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Awards and television appearances of Mildred Council, the Chapel Hill cook known as Mama Dip and the founder of Mama Dip's Country Kitchen. Issued in 2004 by G-Tube Network Media and Television of Chapel Hill and classed as North Carolina biography, it gathers the public recognition Council's cooking brought her.
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Winners of the Cornelia Phillips Spencer Award gathered for a group color photograph on 20 March 2001. Among them are Jean Anderson, Mildred Council (Mama Dip), Rosemary Waldorf, Georgia Kyser, Jacquelyn Hall and Anne Cates, with Brenda Evans, grand-niece of Libba Cotton.
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Mildred Council's papers, roughly 1,200 items in two linear feet spanning the 1990s to the 2010s, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 05003-z. Topics include Mama Dip's Country Kitchen, her restaurant in Chapel Hill, and on African American women cooks, Black business enterprises and businesspeople in North Carolina, southern style American cooking, and African American families in Chapel Hill and Chatham County.
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Mildred 'Mama Dip' Council, who founded Mama Dip's Kitchen in Chapel Hill and wrote cookbooks, is covered in newspaper clippings, copied newspaper and magazine articles, promotional pieces and a photograph. Undated folder, box 3 of the Individuals and Families series, CHHS.001 Vertical File Collection.
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Mildred Council and her daughter at the storefront of Mama Dip's, her Chapel Hill restaurant, in an undated photograph from the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection (CHHS.002).
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