And the Council family food businesses, all started with her encouragement and passion, are likely to continue on for years to come. One granddaughter sells biscuits that are so good she named her business Bomb Biscuits.
Another granddaughter makes crispy baked meringue cookies that shatter on your tongue with a lingering sweetness. One daughter creates cake mixes that bake into red velvet or pound cake. More daughters and two sons run the restaurant and sell the Mama Dip's product line—salad dressing, barbecue sauces, and cornbread mix. The food story goes back a lot further, though. The youngest daughter of seven children, Mildred "Dip" Cotton was such a good cook that her father let her take over the role at age 9, after her mother died.
Mildred quickly found a place in the Council family restaurant, developing her recipe for fried chicken and working alongside Joe. Yes, nicknames are a tradition in this family. Food was at the center of their childhood: helping at Bill's, driving their father's food truck around to construction sites, and hanging out in the kitchen elbows on the table while their mother worked and talked. Anita was 12 when she began helping behind the counter at Bill's Bar-B-Que, cooking burgers and hot dogs and learning to add figures in her head quickly.
As a girl, she always had pocket money, but it didn't mean she got to spend her time having fun with it. Work always came first in the Council family. All of the children and grandchildren have memories of Mildred keeping busy. Anita's daughter, Tonya Council, remembers that even sitting in front of the TV at night, her grandmother would shell pecans for the next day's pies. Tonya began waitressing at her grandmother's original restaurant, Dip's Country Kitchen, when she was 15 or 16, but her time there started a lot earlier.
Tonya's side business, Tonya's Cookies , started out as a kitchen project when she got annoyed seeing an empty bakery case at the front of the restaurant. She decided to create a cookie that was as good as her grandmother's pecan pie. She tried and tried, getting on everyone's nerves in the kitchen while she made batch after batch. Finally, she experimented with a fateful new recipe.
She always wanted to help kids," Sandra Concil said. She was the granddaughter of a slave. Council first learned to cook by watching her family and neighbors use the "dump cooking" method of cooking by taste. Council reportedly honed her culinary skills at Bill's and even worked alongside her mother-in-law at a tiny take-out kitchen in Council spent a lot of time cooking for others at home and at the Carolina Coffee Shop, and fraternity houses including St.
Anthony Hall in the s, where she got to know Emmy award-wnning journalist Charles Kuralt. She was a great mother and gave us a lot. Council inspired her granddaughter to go into baking. Tonya Council, who started working at Mama Dip's when she was 15, used any spare time at the restaurant to craft her now popular cookies. She started out trying to make cookies that tasted just like her grandmother's famous pecan pie. After many attempts, she came up with a pecan crisp cookie - light and full of flavor.
In an hour, she sold four dozen cookies from the dessert case at Mama Dip's. Council wanted to keep filling the case at the front of the restaurant, so she kept baking. Published: Updated: Next Up:. Available On Air Stations. All Streams. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email. Leoneda Inge. The matriarch of a long-time Chapel Hill restaurant has died. Credit Leoneda Inge.
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