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Join us at the Chapel Hill Public Library for a very special program featuring Anita "Spring" Council to celebrate her new cookbook Southern Roots.Books will be for sale at the event from Flyleaf Books, or you can preorder your books and we'll bring them to the event!
From the daughter of the legendary Mildred “Mama Dip” Council, a heartfelt cookbook celebrating four generations of Black restaurateurs and the soulful recipes that nourished a community.
For nearly fifty years, Mama Dip’s Kitchen wasn’t just one of Chapel Hill, North Carolina’s most beloved restaurants—it was an institution. In 1976, with just $64 and a lifetime of kitchen wisdom, Mildred “Mama Dip” Council opened the doors to a gathering place that fed the soul as much as the stomach. Her youngest daughter, Anita Spring Council, honed her skills as a chef within its walls, learning the secrets of the Southern kitchen at her mother’s side. Now, the inheritor of this incredible legacy steps forward to share her family’s story.
In her tenderhearted debut cookbook, Southern Roots, Spring offers more than 100 dishes grounded in the oral recipe-sharing tradition. It’s a collection filled with treasured family secrets and vignettes from her experience coming of age as a Black girl in the Jim Crow South, all brought to life with a thoughtful, modern approach to the classics.
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Chapel Hill Public Library, 100 Library Dr,Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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