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" Hannah Mary Marshall, 24Hometown: HoustonHostess at: Congress, Austin, Texas ESQUIRE: I hear the river&amp;#039;s pretty big down in Austin and around that area. Drinking and floating down the river for hours. HANNAH MARY MARSHALL: It depends on which river you pick, too. One of them goes for six hours. ESQ: That&amp;#039;s a very passive form of traveling. HMM: It&amp;#039;s important to get enough beer, yeah. ESQ: Lone Star? HMM: People do think Lone Star is a thing. And I don&amp;#039;t know if this is true, but I heard that it&amp;#039;s not actually made in Texas. ESQ: That&amp;#039;s very un-Texas. HMM: I think Shiner is the actual Texas beer. ESQ: So what brought you to Austin? HMM: Well, I&amp;#039;ve lived in a few other places in between, but I just missed Texas so much, and I have a lot of friends living in Austin. And I decided to study nutrition at Texas State. I&amp;#039;m getting my Registered Dietitian&amp;#039;s license. ESQ: Why nutrition? HMM: I was pre-med, and I really love science. Then I found out that you can combine food and science, and that was pretty much the pinnacle of amazing for me.  ESQ: Do you apply any of that knowledge at Congress? HMM: I actually have to try hard not to apply it, I would say. When people make reservations, I always ask if they have any allergies. People say they have allergies to crazy stuff that I know, scientifically, you cannot possibly have an allergy to. This one woman said she was allergic to raw fish, but not cooked fish. ESQ: Really? HMM: Yeah. ESQ: People with their allergies these days. HMM: Soy sauce \u2014 the same woman said she was allergic to soy sauce, but no other kind of soy. ESQ: So being allergic must be a synonym for simply not liking something. Can you tell when someone walks through the door if they&amp;#039;re not from around town? HMM: Not always. It depends. Because at Congress, pretty much everyone&amp;#039;s really friendly. But I&amp;#039;ve worked places where, if someone&amp;#039;s really rude, I doubt that their origins... ESQ: They&amp;#039;re not from Texas. HMM: I don&amp;#039;t think they&amp;#039;re a true Texan if they&amp;#039;re really rude. ESQ: Craziest thing that&amp;#039;s happened to you at work? HMM: I guess, aside from this? ESQ: Like, say, if somebody vomited on the hostess stand... HMM: Um, we get a lot of drunk people. But no one throwing up on me, thankfully. But the picture that my boss sent y&amp;#039;all is of me in this tutu dress. And I&amp;#039;d worn this tutu dress to work like three or four times. It&amp;#039;s my favorite dress, and when people call to make a reservation, some will say, &amp;quot;Hey, are you the one that wears the tutu dress?&amp;quot; Or they&amp;#039;ll come in, and if they&amp;#039;ve seen me in it before, they&amp;#039;ll ask me where it is, or why I&amp;#039;m not wearing it.  ESQ: It is a tutu dress. It&amp;#039;s very memorable. HMM: Yeah, but it&amp;#039;s a little silly. ESQ: You&amp;#039;re really starting a good trend here. HMM: I&amp;#039;ve actually been encouraged to express myself through my clothing. People have asked if it&amp;#039;s my uniform when I wear it. ESQ: That would be a great restaurant, if everybody had to wear a tutu dress. Or disturbing. You know, one of those two.  HMM: It provides a hazard in between tables that are kind of close together, but other than that... ESQ: You&amp;#039;re holding a book in your picture. What book is that? HMM: It&amp;#039;s Safe Food, by Marion Nestle. She&amp;#039;s a famous food scientist. It&amp;#039;s about all kinds of things, but mostly it&amp;#039;s about bacteria in food. ESQ: We&amp;#039;re getting a good deal right now. We&amp;#039;re not only interviewing the Hostess of the Week, but we&amp;#039;re prying some food-science expertise from you. Tell us one thing we don&amp;#039;t know about the science of food. HMM: My most recent, surprising discovery is that the worst cereal for you is Cap&amp;#039;n Crunch. ESQ: Wow. HMM: Yeah. ESQ: They&amp;#039;ve figured that out? HMM: With the sugar content and carbohydrates: Cap&amp;#039;n Crunch. Even worse for you than Lucky Charms. ESQ: How do you relax outside of work? HMM: Besides studying? That&amp;#039;s not very relaxing. I have chickens, and a goat. I play with them a lot. ESQ: Holy hell. HMM: I&amp;#039;m doing really well at killing the farming reputation of Texas. ESQ: What compels you to have chickens and goats? HMM: I started off wanting to get chickens, and I really love goat cheese. And so I thought, Why not get a goat and make my own goat cheese? ESQ: My God. You make your own goat cheese? HMM: I can&amp;#039;t yet. She&amp;#039;s not quite of breeding age. But in a couple months, I&amp;#039;ll be ready. ESQ: Got a secret for raising a goat and chickens? HMM: You&amp;#039;ve got to have a really good sense of humor. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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