CULTURETECHLENSIllyanna Maisonet
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Combined Graph record U-03497 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-P-1370. Master record source: User-supplied article 2026-10-16 (UrbanGeekz) — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.
Puerto Rican chef, food historian, and author; first Puerto Rican food columnist in the US (Cocina Boricua, San Francisco Chronicle); author of Diasporican
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Puerto Rican chef, food historian, and author; first Puerto Rican food columnist in the US (Cocina Boricua, San Francisco Chronicle); author of Diasporican
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- Role(s): chef, author
- Known for: Puerto Rican chef, food historian, and author; first Puerto Rican food columnist in the US (Cocina Boricua, San Francisco Chronicle); author of Diasporican
Relationships
- Diaspora Chefs — appears on
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- Diasporican — authored by → this record
Sources
- https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/671586/diasporican-by-illyanna-maisonet-foreword-by-michael-w-twitty/ (verification source · master store)
Evidence note (master store)
Publisher page (tier 2, Ten Speed Press via Penguin Random House): Diasporican is by 'the United States' first Puerto Rican food columnist, award-winning writer Illyanna Maisonet,' with over 90 deeply personal recipes built on rigorous research into her family's Puerto Rican recipes. The column's name and venue (Cocina Boricua, San Francisco Chronicle) are confirmed by the fetched UrbanGeekz article (STRONG component); the James Beard Foundation confirms her 2023 Emerging Voice win for the book
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