Rossi Anastopoulo
is the author of Sweet Land of Liberty: A History of America in 11 Pies (Abrams, 2022), a narrative gastronomic history that uses pie as a lens through which to view significant periods of transformation in America, from the colonial era through the civil rights movement and beyond. You can read or listen to interviews with her on the book on CNN, NPR’s All Things Considered, and KCRW’s Good Food. Sweet Land of Liberty was the winner of the 2023 International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) Award for Best Literary or Historical Food Writing.
Her work has appeared in TASTE, Slate, Bon Appetit, Saveur, Garden & Gun, and more, covering everything from the history of apple pie to fried pie in Arkansas; she is also an editor at King Arthur Baking Company, and her writing is available here.
In 2019, she was the recipient of the IACP Award for Narrative Food Writing With or Without Recipes for her piece on the bean pie and the Nation of Islam, “The Radical Pie That Fueled a Nation.” She collaborated with Los Angeles pastry chef Roxana Jullapat on her James Beard-nominated cookbook Mother Grains.
Rossi is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was a Morehead-Cain scholar. She is originally from Charleston, South Carolina, and currently lives in Los Angeles.
She is represented by Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc.