A group of eager catering college students sit facing culinary powerhouses Riyaaz Amlani and Gresham Fernandes. We are at Jude Bakery on Waroda Road in Bandra. The house cat there has been temporarily shifted to the mezzanine floor to facilitate the discussion between experts and debutants, much to its chagrin. But it's all necessary preparation for the second edition of The Guide Connects, a platform for connecting mid-day's young readers with experts from a burgeoning industry, for a session that's part masterclass, part discussion.

"I'll take that one," Amlani seems to say