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<a title="https://francescazani.com/about#:~:text=Francesca%20Zani%20is%20the%20Assistant,%2C%20food%20news%2C%20and%20more." href="https://francescazani.com/about#:~:text=Francesca%20Zani%20is%20the%20Assistant,%2C%20food%20news%2C%20and%20more." target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Francesca Zani</a> is a Food Editor at Delish, where she develops and writes recipes and features, produces, directs, and styles multi-platform videos, and hosts on-camera recipe and educational content. She also curates European-inspired food, lifestyle, and adventure content and writes a newsletter on <a title="https://francescazani.substack.com/" href="https://francescazani.substack.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Substack</a>. She previously launched <a title="https://francescazani.com/buy-it/" href="https://francescazani.com/buy-it/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ciao Boxes</a>, a curated Italian-inspired food box, through her<a title="https://francescazani.com/" href="https://francescazani.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> </a><a title="https://francescazani.com/" href="https://francescazani.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">website</a> and brand CIAO FRANKI LLC.
Francesca began her career as a bakery clerk at an Italian bakery, which led to pastry baking and decorating. She had a brief stint as a line cook at Castle Hill Inn and other Hudson Valley restaurants before joining Powerhouse Productions, where she worked her way up from Associate Culinary Producer to Culinary Producer. Over nearly four years, she produced award-winning lifestyle and food TV, working with talent like Patti LaBelle, JJ Johnson, Marcus Samuelsson, Kwame Onwuachi, and Jernard Wells. She was a producer on the James Beard-nominated series EatUp! New York, and led food styling for Wells’ cookbook Southern Inspired. 
Francesca is a CIA graduate with degrees in Culinary Arts and Applied Food Studies, with a concentration in Italian cuisine.

Francesca Zani

Bowl of rigatonini pasta with andouille sausage, Lacinato kale, cannellini beans, ricotta and grated Pecorino Romano.

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Rigatonini with Andouille Sausage, Lacinato Kale and Cannellini Beans

I am the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Appetito magazine. I like Italian food &amp; drink, a lot. I am also an award-winning novelist and a regular contributor to the New York Times. More about my work can be found at <a href="https://andrewcotto.com/">Home &#8211; Andrew Cotto</a>.

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Rigatonini with Andouille Sausage, Lacinato Kale and Cannellini Beans

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