Here’s a Little Bit About Her:

Francesca Zani is the Assistant Food Editor for Delish, a digital and print food media platform featuring recipes, videos, food news, and more. She develops recipes and writes for digital and print media including her monthly membership newsletter, produces and directs social media recipe reels leading the reels and onsite video strategy, styles hands-in pans, and hosts on-camera videos for onsite and social. She’s appeared on Pix 11 news to talk about back to school lunches as well as in edutainment reels for Delish.When she's not working, she's creating content for her brand, The Garnished Palate and recently launched a curated food box called “Francesca’s Ciao Boxes.” She was previously a board member of The New York Women's Culinary Alliance.

Francesca completed her Associate's degree in Culinary Arts and a Bachelor's in Applied Food Studies with a concentration in Italian cuisine at the Culinary Institute of America. While in school she was a line cook intern at the Relais and Chateau Castle Hill Inn, worked catering gigs, tested recipes and assisted chef and cookbook author, Sarah Copeland on her third cookbook Everyday Is Saturday, and worked on her the set of Cooking Channels Patti’s Place under PowerHouse Productions. With the help of the CIA and fellow students she published a digital magazine, Tasting Media. Upon graduation she received the distinguished Dean's Award. 

Shortly after graduation she began assisting food stylists and taking on her first private chef-client in N.Y. for a short period before being hired at PowerHouse Productions as an associate culinary producer and later Culinary Producer. She went on to help produce award winning food and lifestyle television under the company for nearly four years, working with celebrity personalities Patti Labelle, Marcus Samuelsson, Kwame Onwuachi, JJ Johnson, Bren Herrera, Essie Bartels, and Jake and Jazz Smollett. She was a supporting producer on the James Beard nominated series EatUp! New York and lead food stylist for Jernard Wells cookbook Southern Inspired. She traveled globally to places like Ghana, Puerto Rico, St. Thomas, and around the U.S. to embrace her multifaceted responsibilities.