Welcome to the Cucina section.
From a supper club to an alumnus interview, this issue is a food stories special. Through a chocolate olive oil cake recipe, we introduce our La Civetta supper club, friends old and new brought together over an unadulterated celebration of all things Italian.
Further afield I bring you the Settesoli story, a chance backpacking discovery which tells tale of a passionate Sicilian with a vineyard supplying the likes of Jamie's Italian.
Finally, Bristol's alumnus James Ramsden offers up pearls of wisdom on how he went from Bristol Italian undergraduate to Guardian writer and, most recently, the co-founder of a critically acclaimed restaurant shaking up the London food scene - budding foodies take note.
Enjoy the read!
Pippa Cole,
Cucina Editor