Mama Dip's Recipes:
- Chicken Pudding
- Sweet Potato Biscuits
- Cocoa Bread With Stewed Yard Peaches
- Stewed Yard Peaches
- Tomato Casserole
- Great Northern Beans With Tomatoes
Mildred Council settles down into a rocking chair next to mine and takes a deep breath. Mama Dip, as she is known, is more than 6 feet tall, and her long legs stretch out into the late morning sun. The owner of Mama Dip's Kitchen in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is without pretension. You would never guess that she's a best-selling cookbook author and a community role model. As a child, Mama Dip was so tall, she had to dip over to get water from the water barrel--hence, her nickname. Today, she expends considerable energy nurturing those around her and supporting the community. As she talks about her causes, Mama rocks slower or faster depending on her mood. "Mama's a real activist," explains Spring, her youngest daughter. "She even started her own version of Meals-On-Wheels in the 1970s--delivering hot packaged dinners around the neighborhood to the housebound, to those who couldn't afford electricity, and to kids who had no adult supervision."
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