About Stasia Boschetti
Hello, I’m Stasia Boschetti.
I’m endlessly curious about how a dish earns its place on the American table.
Why was Chicken Tetrazzini named for an Italian opera star? How did hotel dining rooms give us recipes that later became home-kitchen standards? Why do certain pies belong so firmly to particular places, and why do some dishes stay with us for generations?
Those are the questions that keep me cooking and writing.
I’m a culinary writer and the founder of American Country Living. I’ve spent more than thirty years cooking, developing recipes, feeding people, and following the stories behind the food we keep making.
My work often begins with something small: a handwritten family recipe, an old menu, a regional dish, a market ingredient, or a question I can’t stop thinking about.
Then the questions start.
Who made it first? How did the recipe travel? What changed along the way? Why are we still making it?
That curiosity leads me through California citrus, New England seafood, Southern baking, Midwestern family tables, Southwestern chiles, Appalachian preserves, Gulf Coast cooking, immigrant kitchens, and recipes passed from one generation to the next.
My years in catering taught me the practical side of feeding people, and my training at The Protocol School of Washington deepened my interest in hospitality and the traditions surrounding the table.
At American Country Living, you’ll find original recipes, culinary history, regional traditions, and the people, places, and ingredients that shaped American cooking.
I’m especially drawn to the things that last: the recipe made for forty years, the penciled note in the margin of a family recipe, the regional dish people defend with conviction, the casserole everyone knows even when nobody remembers where it began.
There is always another recipe to develop, another story to trace, and another question worth following.
I’m glad you found your way here.
Stasia
