num_pages: 256
description: Over 90 delicious deeply personal recipes that tell the story of Puerto Rico's Stateside diaspora from the United States' first Puerto Rican food columnist award-winning writer Illyanna Maisonet.Illyanna Maisonet spent years documenting her familys Puerto Rican recipes and preserving the islands disappearing foodways through rigorous often bilingual research. In Diasporican she shares over 90 recipes some of which were passed down from her grandmother and motherclassics 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 islands flavour 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.
language: English
title: Diasporican: A Puerto Rican Cookbook
publisher: Ten Speed Press