Growing up and to this day, I've lived with my grandparents. They both were around to pick me up after school when I was younger while my parents were at work, so I've spent many days with them. They are both immigrants from the Dominican Republic, my grandpa came to New York in 1979, mostly for work but they settled after having my mom and her siblings. My Grandpa is very well known for his cooking in my house. He had a bodega while my mom was growing up so I wasn't around to see it. It was right next to another deli so me, so my mom, and my grandpa are pretty close with the workers there. But even after closing it down, which was involuntary cause it burnt down... he continued to make deli-related foods to our house. Every Sunday after my grandparents come back from church, my grandpa makes so many sandwiches, nobody eats all of it cause there's just too much. My grandma's specialty is baking, which I've taken after because of it. I think now I bake more than she does but if there was a school event to bring food or dessert, she would always help me make it and bring it to school. They've contributed to the person I am now specifically when it comes to food and socializing because there are always so many people at my house. And I look up to them since they came from a big farm in the Dominican Republic, quite literally in the middle of nowhere, to NYC where they've made an amazing living.

– Micaela

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