Reading

Australian Gourmet Traveller and wondering how Cutler & Co could be named "Restaurant of the Year" by a national food publication, but not have made the nominations list for The Age Good Food Guide, unless I'm missing something here.

Watching

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, which I didn't hate as much as I expected to. Faint praise, sure, but it's a film with Michael Cera, so... yeah.

Listening to

My Emmylou Harris playlist, on shuffle.

Discovering

A wealth of delicious pedantry at Mental Floss.

Eating

• Curry Laska at Gurney Drive. It is spicy and rich, avoiding the traps of being too sweet, and having too much chicken. I did, however, miss having fishcake.
• more recipes from Ottolenghi.
• Calamari "canneloni" with prawns at Esposito
• braised pork cheek from Mezzo, wagyu burger from The Palace, wallaby tataki from Charcoal Lane, pork and prawn roll from Longrain. No, I haven't won lotto - I went to Taste of Melbourne.
• treats from La Parisienne Pates: duck terrine and Soignon Selection
• a number of delicious dishes at Izakaya Den. The eggplant with konnyaku was one of my favourites and I enjoyed the lamb (Iron Chef would be bemused) with miso and the duck breast with pomegranate (actually, the only thing I wasn't crazy about was the greens and tofu in dashi dish) but the whole deal just made me wish I was at a real izakaya, so we are planning our next Japanese trek.