Bryan Washingtonis doing for Houston what Celeste Ng did for Shaker Heights, Ohio.
Or: Joan Didion and California.
Stephen King and small-town Maine.
Credit: Dailey Hubbard
Instead of a concrete web of highways, Bryan Washington’s Bayou City is full of flavor.
My favorite book as a child
The Real Taste of Jamaicaby Enid Donaldson.
My mother is Jamaican; my fathers American, but I grew up around a lot of cooking.
Saint Records
The movie I watch over and over
Theres a film by Edward Yang calledYi Yi.
Its my ‘summer, Im still up its 2 a.m., whats happening?’
movie and this has been a summer where theres been quite a lot of that.
I was just reading it on my phone, like, why am I bawling?
Watching her learn to cook with all these different chefs has been lovely.
