Tonya Council isn’t one to leave good enough alone. She likes to keep tinkering in the kitchen until she discovers something great. It’s a trait she learned at her grandmother’s elbow. It didn’t hurt that her grandmother was Mildred Council, the woman most people who know anything about Southern food called Mama Dip. Since her passing, in 2018, generations of offspring have kept her long-standing Chapel Hill, North Carolina, restaurant going and branched out to create their own successful food businesses. “She raised
