We Are Wonderfully Made

Iman McDonnagh-Brown always loved her grandmother’s cooking; growing up the table was full of roti and oxtail stew and other dishes from her native Trinidad and Tobago. But it was the homemade pepper sauce, plus a nudge from her father, that convinced Iman to move from a career in modeling to one in cuisine. In 2018 she and her husband, Ryan, launched We Are Wonderfully Made, bringing West Indian flavors and personal sensibility from their kitchen to farmer’s markets in San Diego, where Ryan’s stationed with the U.S. Navy, and supermarket shelves nationwide