'Illyanna Maisonet - Simply Recipes'

Location: SF Bay Area

Expertise: Puerto Rican Food, California Cuisine

Creator of Cocina Boricua, a San Francisco Chronicle column focused on Puerto Rican diasporic food
Authored Diasporican: A Puerto Rican Cookbook
Awarded a James Beard Award in 2023

Experience

Illyanna Maisonet is the first Puerto Rican food columnist in the United States. Her San Francisco Chronicle column, Cocina Boricua, focused on food throughout the Puerto Rican diaspora. She has dedicated her career to documenting Puerto Rican recipes and preserving the Puerto Rican diaspora's disappearing foodways through rigorous, often bilingual research.

Her debut cookbook, Diasporican: A Puerto Rican Cookbook was a New York Times Best Cookbook of 2022 and was awarded a James Beard in 2023.

Illyanna's writing can be found on Simply Recipes.

Favorite kitchen tool: "Best piece of cooking advice: use a mandolin guard"

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