Here’s a Little Bit About Her:

Assistant Food Editor: Delish~ 2022- present

She is very much excited about her current role at Delish! Francesca works on a very collaborative and dynamic team of food editors developing, testing, photographing, and filming food content weekly. Each month she researches classic, worldly, and trending SEO recipes for digital and quarterly print magazine. As an editor she is responsible for curating recipes that are spin-offs of classics in the Delish style, produce weekly social food videos, occasionally style still life, and assist on photo and video shoots. She is also helping to curate a grocery ordering and inventory system,

Culinary Producer: PowerHouse Productions~ 2018-2022

After six months of freelancing under renowned food stylists, she accepted a job as Associate Culinary Producer for PowerHouse Productions working under owners and Executive Producers Rochelle Brown and Sonia Armstead. As her mentors they lead her to start her first LLC, The Garnished Palate.

As a Culinary Producer / Producer she held various tasks throughout her three and half years of production working on culinary, lifestyle, and travel shows: James Beard Nominated EATUP! NY on abc7 and Just Eats with Chef JJ, New Soul Kitchen and New Soul Kitchen Remix with Jernard Wells, Living by Design with Jake and Jazz, Culture Kitchen with Bren Herrera, Global Gourmet with Essie Bartels, CLEO Chonicles on CLEO TV, and Lens of Culture.

The life cycle of a show from pre-production to post production would include: leading a culinary team, acting as talent liaison, developing and testing certain recipes, formulating show themes and menus, food styling food for camera beauties, photographing food on a few series, working closely with editor to send notes for rough and final cuts of each episode, finalize graphics and chyrons, and much more. She worked closely with the executive producers and talent to ensure work flow productivity all the way through.

Francesca helped organize, develop, test, and food style recipes for celebrity Chef Jernard Wells cookbook. For Living by Design she helped interview candidates for for re-designs, create logistical calendars for show production, set up and lead collaborative calls with talent and the design team, collaborate with talent on culinary menu, and lead culinary segments. She helped research, scout, and interview people and locations for Lens of Culture Season 1, and CLEO Chronicles season 1.

Additionally, Francesca co-managed the company's social media accounts, which includes producing a series called Foodie Friday (see here). As shes grown through these positions it has allowed her to build a strong foundation in the development of shows, social media content, and recipes, as well as fine tune leadership, on camera food styling, and writing.

Side Hustle~2015- present

She’s an occasional blogger and writer for The Garnished Palate LLC and has published research pieces and participated in brand collaborations developing recipes, photos, or video content for brands like: Simply Recipes, Harney and Sons Tea, The Perfect Puree of Napa Valley, Pomp and Whimsy Gin, Parm Crisps, Oh-Mazing Foods, and Atalanta Corporation.

Francesca has been an active member of the New York Women’s Culinary Alliance as previous task force member, board secretary, and communications chair. She produced a collaborative bakesale at Smorgasuburg in october of 2022 in which proceeds were donated to Girls Write Now. She is also co-leading the project to redesign NYWCA website and logo.

Italy and Beyond~ 2018

Francesca studied abroad in Puglia, Italy in her final semester of college. She was inspired by the plethora of knowledge Italian culture and cuisine offers and blogged daily about her experiences. She graduated from the CIA with a bachelor's degree in Food Studies in spring 2018 and received the distinguished Dean’s award for Applied Food Studies. After finishing school Francesca was a part-time private chef and freelance food styling assistant for reputable NYC food stylists and producers. She got to work on editorial, video, and advertisement shoots, each teaching her various aspects of the media industry.

CIA Year~ 2015-2018

During Francesca’s three years at the Culinary Institute of America, she was honored to be the group leader for her class post externship. With passion for food media, she was vice president of the digital media club and curated a digital magazine that focused on all aspects of food media! Outside of classes, Francesca interned with Sarah Copeland of Edible Living. She assisted Sarah on her third cookbook: Everyday is Saturday, tested recipes, and assisted on photo shoots, and performed other organizational tasks. She also assisted food stylist Kersti Bowser on Patti Labelle's second season of Patti LaBelle’s Place produced by PowerHouse Productions.