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its and bobs ............................... magazine of thE month: cherry bombe Coming out of a brilliant concert at the Dome recently, most people were very quiet, me included. Then I noticed that everyone was talking about the lighting, me included. That wasn’t because the lighting was better than the music; it was because it was just so hard to put into words anything that made sense of what we had just listened to. I’ve always thought the same is true about food. The difficulty of trying to describe taste, aromas and textures is so tricky it’s not surprising that most restaurant reviews – even the best of them - bang on about their journey to the restaurant, its location and the friends they were with more than the food itself. Which doesn’t stop food journalism from continuing to grow. This is true in the mainstream but it is also true of indie magazines as well. In the short time since the shop has been open The Gourmand, Lucky Peach and Cherry Bombe have been joined by Tapas, Cleaver, ffzine and more. We stock them all. I’m highlighting Cherry Bombe this month because it has a sense of fun, it covers the whole spectrum of food and food related stuff and, as it comes from New York, it looks through a different lens than most UK magazines. In the latest lively and bright issue, there are 30 different items in its 144 pages. You can start picking from a girl and her goats, taming migraine, thanking moms, rising chefs, frozen juices, luxury ice cream, sushi, culinary awakenings and more, more, more. Oh and there are recipes, too. Cherry Bombe will take you ages to read, will look good in your kitchen and make you better at appreciating food. Not bad for a twice-yearly mag, in my view. Martin Skelton, Magazine<strong>Brighton</strong>, Trafalgar Street toilet graffito #9 Where IS the coat hook? This is a question which our toilet correspondent asks herself in too many public toilets. In <strong>Brighton</strong> and beyond. So, we join this month’s anonymous scrawler in her lament, and make this public service plea to all the publicans out there: A coat hook please (to ease our wees). But in which pub did(n’t) she find it? Last month’s answer: The Sussex Arms ....21....