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With the Italian tomato season looming, it’s the perfect time to focus on the heartbeat ingredient of Italian cooking. Catching up with some of the biggest names in the sector, we covered new flavours, varietals, consumer trends and so much more. While there’s uncertainty around weather conditions for harvest, you can pretty much guarantee provenance and the best toms on the planet.
The 2025 PAPA Awards are also edging ever closer, so check out all the opportunities around competition submissions and sponsorship.
Plus, there’s a bumper News section, we look at a pizza business blazing a trail on the South Coast, the buzz around gelato, plus the evolving impact of AI and tech.
Enjoy!
ALEX BELL - EDITOR
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Contents
REGULARS
04 News
20 The PAPA Industry Awards
52 Classifieds
GELATO INSIGHT
18 Picture Perfetto! – Carpigiani
PAPA PROFILE
28 Premier League of its own – Village Pizza Kitchen
TOMATOES
30 Cirio
34 Mutti
38 Leathams
42 Salvo 1968
46 Silbury
AI/TECH/DELIVERY
