Alison Walker is the Food and Drink Editor of Country Living magazine and loves cooking comfort food using seasonal ingredients. After a career in editorial magazine publishing, she retrained as a professional chef at Leith's School of Food and Wine in London and graduated as Student of the Year in 2002. After leaving Leith's she worked as a food stylist on various movie sets and television programmes, such as the Bond film Die Another Day and Vanity Fair . Since then, she has worked as food editor on various glossy women's magazines in London. Immediately before joining Country Living , she was Head of Cookery at Good Housekeeping (UK edition).