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The Sporkful

Illyanna Maisonet Is Always Pissed Off

The Sporkful

SiriusXM Podcasts

Arts

4.63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Growing up in Sacramento, Illyanna Maisonet felt distant from her Puerto Rican roots. Eventually, through food, she found her connection to the Puerto Rican diaspora, and to the island’s rich culinary history and diversity, which she says are often overlooked by Puerto Ricans themselves.

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0:00.0

This episode contains explicit language.

0:04.6

Congrats on the book.

0:07.0

It's so exciting.

0:08.0

Thank you.

0:09.0

I'm excited, Ish.

0:11.4

Tell me about the Ish.

0:12.4

I'm like a pessimist.

0:13.4

So, you know, I'm always like waiting for the world to crumble or whatever it's all.

0:17.1

Well, it's nerve-wracking to have worked as something for so long.

0:21.5

I would imagine like a lot of emotions.

0:23.0

It's like gratifying to see it out in the world and get good attention, but also sort

0:26.1

of like nerve-wracking because you just have a lot of like personal stakes on how it's

0:31.2

gonna be received.

0:32.2

Yeah.

0:33.2

I mean, also too, just because I'm a petty person.

0:35.3

There's also a lot of bitterness too.

0:36.8

If it doesn't sell well, then that means that everybody was right and when they were

0:41.0

saying there's no market for it.

0:43.8

But if it does well, then that means that why the fuck did it take so long?

0:48.2

Why did I have to work like four times harder than the person that, you know, got to do

0:53.0

like six keto paleo bean books in between, you know what I mean?

0:57.7

Like, well, I'm still trying to like pump this one up.

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