La Cucina was an English roots style band of the 1990s, that went under the tagline of "accordion-driven funky neapolitan rockers".
Although they were based in the south of England, their music was an amalgam of Southern Italian folk songs and disco and salsa beats.
Later, they produced 3 CDs in which the instrumentation and production is of a much more contemporary nature, with influences such as Tom Waits and Madness.
In 1996 they visited Jordan to play at the wedding of one of the granddaughters of King Hussein.
Their third CD, Bloom, completed after the departure of Owain Clarke and the introduction of the songwriting partnership of Paul Goodall and Tom Hazell also contained several collaborations with Najma Akhtar.