Erika Council grew up among food royalty.
One of her grandmothers owned the classic soul-food restaurant Mama Dip’s in Chapel Hill. And now Erika has found her own prominent place in Southern food, especially through her biscuits, the centerpiece of her Bomb Biscuits pop-up meals in Atlanta.
But it wasn’t a smooth path from there to here. Council intended to stay out of the food business. But it drew her back in, and that story is what we explore in this episode.
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Show notes:
- Council's website, Southern Souffle
- Her Bomb Biscuit pop-ups
- An appreciation of her grandmother, Mildred "Mama Dip" Council (written by former SouthBound guest Kathleen Purvis)
- She contribued a story about her other grandmother to this New York Times piece on Thanksgiving
- The buttermilk from Cruze Farm Dairy that Council travels to Tennessee to get
Other music in this episode courtesy of bensound.com
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