Breaking the fast

So this will be a food blog...mostly. There might be smatterings of travel, shopping/fashion and other miscellaneous hedonistic (my idea of hedonism) pursuits but mostly this will be a Melbourne food blog. And yes, I am well aware that Melbourne, Australia, and certainly the world doesn't need another food blog but every now and again, the crowd gets it right.

I'll try to post fairly regularly, including some retrospectively (mostly from my travels in Europe). If anyone cares, I use a Leica V-Lux 4, because I'm neiter cool nor skilled enough to wield a DSLR, but sometimes they're just iPhone photos.

Let me leave you with one of the best things I've ever eaten—proving that great food neither needs to be complex nor fancy—baby squid and beans cooked in squid ink and balsamic reduction at Bar Pinotxo at La Boqueria markets in Barcelona: