Monthly Archives: January 2013

While the Prick sorts out a few things, why not check out the adventures of a Canadian duck working her way through the Cordon Bleu Academy in Ottawa? No foams or smears here!

Gentle Reader, the fates have conspired against the Prick. Where once I was supposed to touch down in Sydney in the early evening and have several hours of blogging bliss to give a full account of travels in the Yarra … Continue reading →

When you go to a restaurant like Sydney’s Quay – regularly ranked among the world’s best – you expect a peacable environment and top-class food, right? A friend of the Prick reports that on a recent evening, he and his … Continue reading →

The Pricks are off to the Yarra and surrounds then heading up Avenel way – aside from the obvious picks, any cellar doors we ought to be dropping into?

From the BBC, entertaining tales of vegetarians going abroad only to find out that much of the rest of the world thinks they’re nuts. While the Prick is about as firm a supporter of personal liberty and individual choice – … Continue reading →

Sad news that Danks Street Depot is to close, and interesting to note the reasons given by co-owner Jared Ingersoll for the decision: “The environment is much more demanding than when we opened 11 years ago. Compliancy costs have gone … Continue reading →

The Prick’s not askin’ too many questions, if ya know what I’m sayin’, but apparently it’s still possible to get Japanese kombu in Australia despite reports of a general ban on the stuff. It seems the good folks down at … Continue reading →

In The Australian today, an excellent dissection of the lunatic over-reaching of the Australian public health industry: THE cigarette companies, public health activists believe, will slowly bleed to death thanks to tobacco plain packaging. Now they are going in search … Continue reading →

Ah, the perils of being an “ethical eater”. One minute you’re patting yourself on the back for not eating Babe, the next you’re starving Peruvian peasants and deforesting South America: There is an unpalatable truth to face for those of … Continue reading →