Treasuring Guyanese Cuisine in Los Angeles
Issue No. 6: Food, Nutrition, and Access in Our Communities
Photography + Words - Cara Elise Taylor
Featuring Yonette Alleyne, owner of Caribbean Gourmet
Yonette Alleyne is the owner of Caribbean Gourmet in Los Angeles, California. When she was young at home in Guyana, she found what she loved to do early in life. She asked her mother for a cookbook for her 11th birthday and has been cooking, baking, and refining her talent ever since.
Today, she has many loving followers who will travel far to get her special food featuring Caribbean favorites like oxtail stew, jerk chicken, chicken curry, vegan curry, beef and turkey patties, and pastries baked from scratch.
Visit Caribbean Gourmet at 264 S Mission Dr, San Gabriel, CA 91776.
“Oxtail, rice & peas, and sweet plantains. These hands making culinary treasures of the Caribbean belong to Yonette Alleyne, Guyanese chef and owner of Caribbean Gourmet in Los Angeles, California”
About the Photographer
Cara Elise Taylor is a writer and documentary storyteller from the Midwest, shooting primarily with analog modes of photography and videography. The themes in her work include nostalgia/memory, food, Afrolatinidad, Caribbean life, family, and community.
She loves color, candor, natural light, and using visual art to stay connected to her body. She’s perpetually interested in displaying the intimate and ordinary feelings and behaviors of Black people globally—keeping a record of the African diaspora for future generations to observe. Her work has been exhibited at WACO Theater Center, Sovern LA, Los Angeles Center of Photography, and Leimin Gallery. She has had writing and photography published in Luna Collective, Essence GU, and more.
