DADE CITY, Fla. \- Combat-injured Marine Corps veteran Mary Katherine Mason-Alston makes shortbread with a family recipe that goes back to her great-grandmother. To sell to people far and wide from her Dade City store, she needed a food permit, which she obtained through help from the kitchen incubator at UF/IFAS Extension Pasco County, which runs the SMARTstart program in partnership with the Pasco County Economic Development Council (EDC). Mason-Alston stands as a shining example of a person who served our country and now works as an entrepreneurial shortbread maker. “Her path to success is …