User:Earmfield

HEY Vknott (talk) 19:50, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

I searched 'Midred Council' and 29 results came up. The first 4 look like they will be the most helpful. Three are books that she wrote. The fourth is 'Mildred Council papers, 1996 [manuscript]' in Wilson Library.

Next, I searched 'Mama Dips' and I got 12 results. I think her cookbooks will be the most useful.

Then, I tried 'local restaurants in Chapel Hill." I also tried 'southern cooking in Chapel Hill.' The results for 'Mildred Council' and for 'Mama Dips' have given results that I plan on using. There are copies of Mildred Council's books in the UNC libraries.

I searched 'Country cooking + Chapel Hill' and it was too broad.

I also searched 'Mama Dip’s Country Cooking Restaurant' and got "Mama Dip's Kitchen."

I am trying to add this to my live page, but can't figure out how to do it. This is my progress of my first draft.

Mama Dip’s is a traditional country cooking restaurant located at 408 W. Rosemary Street in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. They serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner, seven days a week. A full menu can be found at www.mamadips.com. Mama Dip’s also offers an extensive take home menu. They also sells some distinctive items such as: barbeque sauce, poppy seed dressing, pecan pie, tee shirts, aprons, caps, mugs, and gift certificates at the general store located within the restaurant on Rosemary Street. Mama Dip makes, bottles, and distributes her own special barbeque sauce and dressings to many local specialty foods shops as well.

History: The restaurant opened in November of 1976 and is still very popular today. Mildred Council, better known as “Mama Dip,” started and owns the restaurant. Mama Dip’s cooking and life story has earned her a large fan base beyond the community of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She opened the restaurant with $64with $40 going towards food and $24 to make change. The morning’s profits were used to fund lunch, and the lunch fund to make dinner. At the end of the day, Mama Dip took home $135 and the rest is history. Mama Dip learned to cook by watching her family members and is famous for her “dump” cooking style. Dump cooking involves no recipes, just measure by eye, feel, taste, and testing.

Mildred Council has written two noteworthy books which include: Mama Dip’s Kitchen and Mama Dip’s Family Cookbook. Her books not only share recipes, but also great stories about her life in food. Mama Dip celebrates the importance of family and community based around cuisine, Southern cooking in particular. She has been featured on “Good Morning America” and on the Food Network’s “Cooking Live.” She said that if it were not for the restaurant, then she would have not have put her books together, referring to her first book, Mama Dip’s Kitchen. Craig Claiborne, a food critic for the New York Times, has written about the restaurant as well.

References: www.mamadips.com Mildred Council, Mama Dip’s Kitchen, “Introduction,” XI-XII, 1-27.

I found an image I want to put at the top of my page. www.deepfriedkudzu.com/2006_06_01_archive.html