“I just worked with it myself, you know. I never really had much experience at cooking from my mother’s house. She always did the cooking. So I don’t have much in the recipe line from my mother. But a lot I picked up from this one, that one. Anytime anyone started talking about cooking, I always had my ears open. I got a lot of ideas that way.”

Mrs. Augusta Dunlap, interviewed with her son Clem on October 7, 1978
From the Palos Heights Public Library Local History Collection

* Dunlap’s Restaurant remained open until 2003 when it was changed to La Fiesta, a Mexican restaurant. When La Fiesta closed it was purchased by Trinity Christian College, who converted the building into their Bootsma Bookstore Café