Illyanna Maisonet is not only Broke-Ass Stuart’s Web Editor, she’s also a classically trained cook and baker that writes a food blog called EatGordaEat. And she’s giving away a FREE cookbook to one of you lucky readers! This book features Puerto Rican recipes and shiny photos of food taken by professional photographer Dan Liberti.

Illyanna Maisonet is not only Broke-Ass Stuart’s Web Editor, she’s also a classically trained cook and baker that writes a food blog called EatGordaEat. Why should you be reading it? Besides it being the only blog you’ve ever read that features Puerto Rican recipes, there are shiny photos of food taken by

Parada 22 is a brick and mortar in the Upper Haight that neighbors its cousin, Cha Cha Cha. And cousins they are, literally, for Cha Cha Cha (and Boogaloos) is owned by restaurateur Philip Belber who is a cousin of Parada 22 owner, Gloria Pinette. For the last six months,

If you think you’ve met a Puerto Rican, you haven’t. You’d never have to question it, because where there is a PR…there will be the flag. Even if the car is a rental, there will be a temporary flag on the rear-view mirror. Few West Coast residents understand Puerto Ricans or

      With my hometown dining companions trailing behind me as I scurried through the Market St. mass traffic of vagabonds and ill-forgotten street pharmacists, it was impossible not to spot the lone foreign flag hanging outside the door. As a self-proclaimed unpatriotic citizen, the flag represents more than