Pamela D. Jones Mack, the owner Taste of Sara was born and raised in Cross, South Carolina, a lile 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 3 younger sisters and discovered that she had a knack for cooking.

Aer graduang from Morris College where she received her B.S. in Business Administraon, she moved to Atlanta, GA where she has lived for the past 29 years. Pamela’s love for cooking has stayed with her as she always hosted Sunday dinners at home. Aer much encouragement from family and friends Pamela decided to start her own catering business and thus Taste of Sara was born.

She named her business aer her great-grandmother Sara Gethers. Pamela remembers watching her great-grandmother in the kitchen as a lile girl teaching her 8 aunts how to prepare Gullah cuisine. In 2019, she won Best in Food in Garden & Garden Gun’s Made in the South Awards. Pamela loves to explore all dierent 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 adopted her great-grandmother’s mantra “Let me love you with my Food!”.