Raiding the magazine stash

There's a beautiful book shop at the end of our street that I visit most weekends, just to have a look around. The other week I found a copy of The Kinfolk Table and while I didn't buy it, it was a good reminder to revisit some of the magazines that are already on my bookshelf at home.

So lately I've been doing just that, making note of recipes I want to try (cauliflower and truffle soup please!), along with books and movies that I'd like to track down. Among the stack, there are a few American and European magazines and it's been especially nice to revisit issues that coincide with our current season.

What's in the stack? Old issues of Kinfolk, Fete Press, CherryBombe, Lucky Peach and The Happy Reader. Plus I've just discovered that my local library has just updated its online magazine titles, so I'm reading a few current issues on my iPad.

My new lunchtime ritual

I've been so hungry since I've gone back to work, my poor brain is still adjusting. But hunger aside, I've started a new ritual for work day lunch breaks. It's super simple - I try to read for half an hour, and something that isn't on a screen.

New favourite magazine

My sister-in-law has a knack for finding exciting new magazines and for my birthday last year she gave me a subscription to Cherry Bombe. 

My first issue arrived in the mail last week and I loved it immediately, from the contributor profiles at the front of the magazine (where everyone answered 'What was your favourite school lunch?') to the generous section of cookbook reviews that are clearly written by people who love to make their own food.

There's even a profile of an Australian girl who has an Instagram feed dedicated to her cute baked creations :)

Cherry Bombe is a bi-annual magazine that's dedicated to women in food and includes everyone from chefs who've won reality TV competitions to well-known magazine editors. It's tone is curious, clever and funny and as a printed magazine, it's wonderfully hefty, matte and beautifully laid out.

The magazine podcasts too! Radio Cherry Bombe is part of the very cool Heritage Radio Network, a food-focussed radio station based in Brooklyn, New York that broadcasts out the back of a pizza restaurant called Roberta's. So far I've listened to Ruth Reichl, The Modern Vegetarian (so very entertaining whilst tackling some important industry issues) and The Home Cook Hero: Sara Moulton, who shares Julia Child's secret to smiling (it's a good one!).