Let's Looka Here

Ana Gonzalez peers at the gems hidden in her refrigerator, preparing to cook a special Dominican dish.

Cafe Bustelo & Salad

Cafe Bustelo & Salad , originally uploaded by TealDream.

Ana Gonzalez cooks a yuca dish in her Brooklyn apartment.

Hearty Dominican meal

A special Dominican plate prepared by Rosa Baez recently.

Birds' Eye Fry

Birds' Eye Fry, originally uploaded by TealDream.

Ana Gonzalez waits for her yuca dish to fry in the pan. After more than 30 years in her Brooklyn apartment, Gonzalez recently moved to Far Rockaway to live with her daughter and her family.

Arroz con Pollo

Preparing Pescado

Cooking, originally uploaded by TealDream.

Rosa Baez, a longtime Brooklyn resident, prepares fish for lunch.

Spoon fry

Spoon fry, originally uploaded by TealDream.

Ana Gonzalez fried a yuca mix recently in her Brooklyn apartment, which she gave up soon after to move in with her daughter's family in Far Rockaway, Queens.

Fry Fry

Fry Fry, originally uploaded by TealDream.

Abuela Ana frying yuca.

Abuela Ana's Yuca Recipe

This is my first SoundSlide. Its of my best friends' grandmother, Ana Gonzalez. She also raised me; they all lived in the apartment floor above mine in Brooklyn, NY. I visited her recently and she started to make me one of her yuca recipes. This is the result.