256 pages | HardcoverOver 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. InDiasporican, 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 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,Diasporicanreveals how food connects us to family, history, conflict, and migration.