A friend, model Fernanda Lima, invited her to move to São Paulo.
[2] She quit modeling and became a cook in 1997, working at the restaurant Roanne, with Claude Troisgros and Emmanuel Bassoleil.
She did internships in Europe at the restaurants Sadler, in Italy and El Celler de Can Roca, in Spain.
[3] In 2006, when she returned to Brazil, Rizzo, her husband Daniel Redondo, and associates, among them Lima, opened the restaurant Maní.
[4] In 2018, Rizzo appeared as a judge on the "Brazil" episode of The Final Table, season 1.