My father taught me the family sausage recipe just as his father taught him, then I perfected it.
Making a living from making sausage.
At first, the idea seemed to good to be true: Doing what we love, sharing a family tradition, and making a living out of it? But here we are happily grinding along (hee hee) and loving it.
My name is Stanislao Rodolfo Riccio (Stano), and as a child growing up in Seattle, Washington and then moving to the town of Spezzano Della Sila (Calabria), I was surrounded by my family’s traditions. One of which was butchering a pig and making sausage, salami, prosciutto, etc. As I was growing up, my father, Michele Riccio, was and continues to be my mentor and the person that showed how to perfect what we loved to make... sausage.
In 1999, I finished culinary school and decided to move back to Washington State to start my dream of becoming a chef. As the years passed, I started working in various Italian restaurants and soon after got married and started a family. From there I began to make sausage once again; just like the family tradition, I bought a pig and started getting to work on making everything just as my father taught me.
Soon after I started giving away the sausage, salami, and prosciutto I made from my first pig to family and friends. The positive feedback and overwhelming suggestions to make more inspired the start of a potential sausage business. Several years later, after minor tweaks to improve the recipe, I am finally able to announce that what was once a small dream has now become Riccio’s Sausage Company.
Made in Seattle, WA. If you live near here, then yes, our product is locally made! (High-five.) If you don’t live in this jewel of the PNW, then please accept our condolences, but sleep well knowing you’re supporting a local business, just not one local to you. :)
The best, basic ingredients. The stuff that goes into our sausage is so simple and pronounceable, that our graphic designer convinced us to put the ingredients right on the front of our packaging. That’s got to account for something.
No bad things. Preservatives, nitrates, and nitrites are evil and our products don’t have them.
