DeVonn Francis Instagram – I’m in the @latimes this week talking to @bettyhallock about dinner parties, the many facets of my identity, and using history as means to push our hospitality and culinary boundaries.
This feature means the world to me because of a recent family trip to Jamaica, where I realized how much work I still need to do to unlearn my own implicit cultural biases informed by the “European Standard”, which we are often taught has a seat exclusively at the center of our culinary (and psychological) universes.
If there’s anything I want you to take away from reading my story, it’s that this year food and travel quite literally gave me the courage to fall in love with my own skin again and want to share that work with the world. 🖤
📸: @itsyasara | Posted on 13/Jul/2023 18:53:19
