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Francesca Giangiulio

Francesca Giangiulio is a food fellow at Salon.

She has an M.A. from NYU’s Magazine and Digital Storytelling program and a B.A. from Boston College in English and theatre. She loves writing about food trends, restaurants, and internet culture (especially when they’re all combined). Francesca has been published in The Inquirer and Mirror, Salon.com, The Boston Globe, Women’s Health, Food Republic, Main Line Today, and Collage.

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Irish potatoes (Handmade Pictures / Getty Images )

Meet the Irish potato that’s actually candy

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Alan Cumming, host of the U.S. version of “The Traitors,” appears against a backdrop of plated smoked salmon, nodding to the show’s unexpected culinary cameo. (Photo illustration by Salon / NBCUniversal / Getty Images)

Salmon is the real “Traitors” power player

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Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie in "Heated Rivalry" (Sabrina Lantos/HBO Max)

“Heated Rivalry” doesn’t need food to be sexual

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A portrait of cookbook author and television presenter Nigella Lawson (Scott McNaughton / Fairfax Media / Getty Images)

Nigella Lawson joins “Great British Bake Off” as newest judge

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Polenta with caramelized fennel (Westend61 / Getty)

Italian food beyond the pasta

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Restaurateur Dame Prue Leith poses for a portrait as she prepares to host a long table banquet during Wilderness Festival at Cornbury Park. (Photo by Jim Dyson / Getty Images)

Prue Leith is leaving “Bake Off”

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Atmosphere at the after party for Sony Pictures Classics and The Cinema Society's special screening of "Eleanor the Great" held at Katz's Delicatessen (Adela Loconte/Variety via Getty Images)

Rob Reiner, remembered at Katz’s Deli

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Feast of Seven Fishes (Olga Mazyarkina / Getty Images )

Why Seven Fishes is still our feast

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Costco Wholesale store exterior, Connecticut. (Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Costco sues the Trump administration

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Glass of pink Martine our Pink Cosmo

The fruity martini’s colorful comeback

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Thanksgiving dinner place setting with sides and pumpkin soup (VeselovaElena / Getty Images )

Skip the turkey. Host a Sides-giving

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Starbucks workers strike outside a Starbucks coffee shop on November 17, 2022 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Starbucks workers strike on “Red Cup Day”

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Canned non-perishable food items (Craig F. Walker / The Denver Post / Getty Images)

Why “Snickers or soup” is the new “trick or treat”

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The silhouette of a commercial airplane flies over skyscrapers (Marcos del Mazo/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Foul food sends Delta flight back to L.A.

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Food court, blurred (RonFullHD / Getty Images )

The Pentagon’s food court is basically a mall

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Bottles of Snapple (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Snapple brings back glass bottles

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Hands holding scoop of whey protein and shaker (Getty Images/Djavan Rodriguez)

What’s lurking in your protein shake

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A French bistro (Alexander Spatari)

French food finds its cool again

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Restaurants and shops on the boardwalk (eurobanks/Getty Images)

Tourist towns see rising hunger in the off-season

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An astronaut watering a plant (Caspar Benson/Getty Images )

Tea thrives in lunar soil, scientists find

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Cookwares are displayed at the store of Le Creuset foundry (FRANCOIS LO PRESTI / AFP/ Getty Images)

Broken promises at Le Creuset’s big sale

Francesca Giangiulio
Starbucks union bus served the picket line of striking SAG-AFTRA and WGA in solidarity outside Netflix studios on July 28, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Starbucks workers sue over dress code

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Tailgate party spread (mphillips007/Getty Images )

Tailgate foods that hold up on game day

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Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay (Qian Jun/MB Media/Getty Images)

Gordon Ramsay reveals cancer diagnosis

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