Stacey Leasca

Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of newsroom experience. She is also the co-founder of Be a Travel Writer, an online course for the next generation of travel journalists. Her photos, videos, and words have appeared in print or online for Food & Wine, Travel + Leisure, Time, Los Angeles Times, Glamour, Men's Health, GlobalPost, LA Confidential, and many more. Stacey also served as an adjunct professor of journalism at the University of Southern California teaching feature writing and visual journalism. She is now pursuing her Ph.D., specializing in building resiliency to disinformation in early-career journalists.

Experience

• 17+ years of journalism experience
• 5+ years covering travel
• LA Press Club award-winning feature writer
• LA Press Club finalist in the travel, sports, and, soft feature categories
• NATJA Awards, Honorable Mention Culinary Travel

About Food & Wine

Food & Wine, a Dotdash Meredith Brand, is an award-winning online resource for anyone passionate about the culinary world. With rigorously tested recipes and the most trusted restaurant, drinks, culinary travel and home coverage, we inspire and empower people everywhere to discover, create, and devour the best in food and wine. Learn more about us and our editorial process.

Latest from Stacey Leasca

The Blackbird app on a phone.
The Blackbird App Lets You Pay Your Restaurant Bill Right on Your Phone — and You Can Use Crypto
Two people picking tomatoes on the farm at The Bushcamp Company in South Luangwa National Park, Zambia.
This African Safari Serves Sustainable Meals From Its Own Farm
Coffee being poured into a mug.
FYI: Your Coffee Has Way More Cockroaches in It Than You Think — and That's OK
Plates of Panera little treats pastries and sandwiches on colorful plates.
Panera Is Getting in on TikTok's 'Little Treat Culture' Movement
Three bottles of Kirkland brand alcohol over a map of the United States.
Here's What Kind of Alcohol Your State Is Picking Up at Costco
Glazed Krispy Kreme Doughnuts.
Here's How to Get Your Free Doughnut at Krispy Kreme for National Doughnut Day
Wendy's French fries
Wendy's Is Giving Out Free Fries Every Friday for the Rest of 2024 — Here's How to Get Yours
Taco Bell's Nacho Fries
Taco Bell Is Bringing Back Its Bestselling Nacho Fries With a Brand-New Sauce
Pizza Hut Joins Forces with Viral Food Critic Keith Lee to Introduce the
 FamiLEE Community Pizza.
Pizza Hut Teams Up With TikTok's Favorite Food Critic for a Brand-New Pie
Doritos Celebrates 20th 'Bajaversary' with First Ever Baja Inspired Chips.
Doritos Is Dropping a New Flavor Just for Mountain Dew Fans
A split image of the inside of a restaurant and a design text for Global Tastemakers
Food & Wine 2024 Global Tastemakers
An interior view of Istanbul Airport
10 Top Airports for Food and Drinks, According to the Experts
A plate of vegan pistachio raspberry mousse from first class on Emirates
This Airline Has More Than 4,000 Recipes in Its Vault and Grows Its Own Kale
An interior view of a vendor with customers at La Merced Market in Mexico City
12 Top Markets for Food and Drinks, According to the Experts
Chef Cristina Bowerman at a food stall at Mercato di Testaccio in Rome
This Market in Rome Has the World’s Best Pizza
An exterior view of a window of a coffee shop in Lison
10 Top Cities for Coffee, According to the Experts
Jeni's Ice Cream new solar eclipse collection
Jeni's Is Launching 4 Intergalactic Ice Cream Flavors Just in Time for the Solar Eclipse
Keurig Alta™ Brewer
Keurig's New Coffee Pods Really Are Sustainable — But There's a Catch
Chips Ahoy Mmmproved cookie packaging and cookies on a plate
Chips Ahoy Is Totally Changing Its Cookie Recipe
Stack of chocolate bars
Chocolate Prices Are Skyrocketing — and it Has Very Little to do With Inflation
Composite of Popeyes wings and a Popeyes sign
Popeyes Is Releasing an All-New Chicken Wing Flavor — Here's How You Can Get It before Anyone Else
Kristen Kish, Gail Simmons, and Tom Colicchio
Here's What the 'Top Chef' Judges Really Think of This Season's Location
Composite of Upside Foods on silhouette of Florida
Florida Is on Its Way to Banning — and Criminalizing — Alternative Meat
Frogs going extinct thanks to the French eating them
France's Love for Frog Legs Is Causing a Potential Environmental Disaster on the Other Side of the World