Conversations with the Inspiring Pamela D. Jones Mack

Today we’d like to introduce you to Pamela D. Jones Mack.

Pamela D. Jones Mack was born and raised in Cross, South Carolina a little town 30 miles outside of the Gullah Region in Charleston, S.C. Pamela has always had a love for cooking since childhood. Being the oldest of four girls and having two working parents, she was held responsible for preparing meals for her three younger sisters.

After graduating from Morris College where she received her B.S. in Business Administration, she moved to Atlanta, GA where she has lived for the past 24 years. Pamela’s love for cooking has stayed with her as she always hosted Sunday dinners at house. After much encouragement from family and friends, Pamela decided to start her own catering business and thus Taste of Satira was born. Her catering business offers boutique catering services, along with weekly meal preparation and basic cooking skills. She named her business after her great-grandmother Satira Gethers. Pamela remembers watching her great-grandmother in the kitchen as a little girl teaching her 8 aunts how to prepare Gullah cuisine.

Has it been a smooth road?
The road hasn’t been necessarily smooth but I’ve enjoyed the growing process of my business. One challenge I had to deal with was working a full-time job while attempting to grow my business. A lot of long days and doing events all by myself in order to keep costs down on top of trying market and promote my business as well.

One-piece some of vital advice, is to never, ever give up. The struggles and obstacles are well worth it. I’m starting to see the fruits of my labor letting me know it was well worth it.

So let’s switch gears a bit and go into Taste of Satira, Inc. story. Tell us more about the business.
Pamela loves to explore all different kinds of cuisines but she always goes back to her roots of Gullah Geechee cuisine. Preparing the food that her grandmother & great-grandmother taught her and her daughters, always reminds her of family and how much her family enjoyed preparing and sharing meals together. Pamela has adapted her great-grandmother’s mantra “Let me love you with my Food!”.

Who do you look up to? How have they inspired you?
The food industry is an ever-evolving industry. One of the challenges for chefs, in my opinion, is that you have to find your niche, what makes you special, what are you doing that no one else is doing. I always to try to answer the question, Why should you eat my food?? The food industry with respect to leadership is mainly a male-dominated field. So not only do we as women have to make exceptional food, but we also have to fight to be heard and as well soon.

Pricing:

• Gullah Geechee Spice Provisions / Gullah Geechee Spice Boil Sack – $15.00 each
• Gullah Geechee Spice Provisions / Gullah Geechee custom all spice – $10.00 each

Contact Info:

• Website: www.tasteofsatira.com
• Phone: 678.871.7912
• Email: [email protected]
• Instagram: @tasteofsatira
• Facebook: @tasteofsatira

Image Credit:
Jena Jones

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