Food
Harbour Table, issue 31
£9.50
Seasonal cooking · 132 pages
Opinion · updated every Friday
Staff picks
Three people work the counter. Each week we each pick what we would press into your hands, and say why in fewer words than a press release.
- Ruth BenacreOwner, food and design
- Ivo BrandrethBack issues and comics
- Nell OddySaturdays, kids and travel
Pick of the month
Harbour Table bakes on the coast, and it is the best food issue of the year
Issue 31 spends a week with a baker in Southwold who lights her oven at three. The photographs are dark and floury and the recipes work: I made the rye loaf twice and the second one was better than my first loaf ever was.
There is a long piece on Suffolk butter, a short one on fish-finger sandwiches, and a fold-out starter guide I have pinned above the kettle. It costs less than a loaf from the posh bakery. Buy two and give one away.
“The rye loaf worked twice. That has never happened to me.”
Shelf talkers
The cards we tuck under the covers
Ivo Brandreth
Read it on the 7.40 to Norwich
Tide Runner is a sea story told almost without words. Volume two has a storm that runs forty pages and I missed my stop.
Comics
Tide Runner, vol. 2
£8.99
Manga · 192 pages · English
Nell Oddy
Smells like a wet anorak, in a good way
Out There prints walks you can do in a weekend and maps you can actually follow. Issue five goes up Snowdon the slow way.
Travel
Out There, issue 5
£13.00
Mountains and long walks · 104 pages
Ruth Benacre
The art book that fits in a coat pocket
Small Art asks forty illustrators to draw something no bigger than a stamp. I keep it by the till for quiet afternoons.
Design
Small Art, vol. 3
£18.00
Art and illustration · 196 pages
Ivo Brandreth
For people who can’t choose
Mystery stack is three titles we think you will like, wrapped in yesterday’s paper. Nobody has sent one back yet.
Subscriptions
Mystery stack, monthly
£22.00
Three surprise titles a month
Letters to the counter
“I came in for a paper and left with a magazine about lighthouses. Now I come in every Friday to see what Nell has put on the card.”
Pat Gedge, Oulton Broad
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