MM Pack
MM Pack is a food writer/historian and private chef who divides her time between Austin and San Francisco. A regular contributor to The Austin Chronicle and Edible Austin, she’s been published in Gastronomica, The San Francisco Chronicle, Oxford Encyclopedia of Food & Drink in America, Nation’s Restaurant News, Scribner's Encyclopedia of Food and Culture, The Dictionary of Culinary Biography, and Southern Foodways Alliance’s Cornbread Nation 1.
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Food on the Fly
Airport food isn’t the same as airplane food, especially at Austin-Bergstrom
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Mini-Review
MM Pack throws “so-called journalistic objectivity out the window,” and reviews Chronicle contributor Wes Marshall’s The Wine Roads of Texas; also, we excerpt it.
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A Shared Vision
Combining generosity and hard work to build the Institute of Hospitality & Culinary Arts at Travis High School
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Book Burn …
Need another reason to eat hot peppers? How about a way to lose weight? MM Pack reviews Heidi Allison’s The Chili Pepper Diet to see if it’s too good to be true.
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Book Burn …
“Happily, the University of North Carolina Press saw fit to reprint this little classic in 1999, and it remains readily available to anyone interested in the history of American hot sauce, as well as in a thoughtful portrait of a rapidly changing segment of American Southern culture,” writes MM Pack. Find out why.