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Let’s Dish

EVERY TIME YOU travel you can’t help but take a bit of that place with you — and leave a little something behind. All those invisible strings connect our hearts to a place even after we’ve gone.

Born in Virginia to immigrant parents from Jamaica, DeVonn Francis — a 30-year-old gay culinary artist, advocate, event producer, and New Yorker — has deep roots on the Caribbean island his parents left.

One of the most transportable cultural elements of a place is its cuisine. As long

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