I’m sure you have heard the sad news: Mama Dip’s in Chapel Hill is officially closing its doors.
Mildred Council was tall as a child and she had the job of using her long arms to dip into the rain barrel for water, earning her nickname, “Dip.” She started cooking when she was ten, “cooking the corn when the corn came in” and frying chicken “as a form of love.” She never stopped.
In 1976, she opened Dip’s Country Kitchen with only $64 in hand. She reveled in cooking for her customers. She said, “it was joy; you could feel it.”…