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Meet Illyanna Maisonet, Author of Diasporican
On Wednesday, March 8 at 6:30 PM, SMCL is thrilled to welcome Illyanna Maisonet, Author of Diasporican: A Puerto Rican Cookbook.
Illyanna Maisonet spent years documenting her family’s Puerto Rican recipes and preserving the island’s
disappearing foodways through rigorous, often bilingual research. In Diasporican, she shares over 90 recipes,
some of which were passed down from her grandmother and mother—classics such as Tostones, Pernil, and
Arroz con Gandules, as well as Pinchos with BBQ Guava Sauce, Rabbit Fricassee with Chayote, and Flan de
Queso.
In this visual record of Puerto Rican food, ingredients, and techniques, Illyanna traces the island’s flavor
traditions to the Taino, Spanish, African, and even United States' cultures that created it. These dishes, shaped
by geography, immigration, and colonization, reflect the ingenuity and diversity of their people. Filled with
travel and food photography, Diasporican reveals how food connects us to family, history, conflict, and
migration.
Illyanna Maisonet was the United States' first Puerto Rican food columnist for a major newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, and has hosted sold out pop-up dinners across the San Francisco Bay Area. An IACP award winner for narrative food writing, she has collaborated with José Andrés for Steven Spielberg's West Side Story wrap party, contributed recipes to Rancho Gordo, authored a crowdfunded cookbooklet, and has written for the Los Angeles Times, Saveur, Food & Wine, Lucky Peach, Food52, Eater SF, and more.
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