Author Archives: chiefprick

Mrs Prick has been working like a trencher(wo)man lately, right down to Sunday shifts down at the salt mine, and it’s all a fella can do to keep things together on the home front here at Stately Prick Manor. Thus … Continue reading →

And they wonder why they get a bad rap: [Jack and Toby Litsky’s vegan] dietary choices have made dining out a challenge… Jack Litsky said they’ve learned that not all pasta advertised as 100 percent whole grain actually is, so … Continue reading →

And by “feminists”, I don’t mean the vast majority of nice and normal people who believe that men and women should treat (and pay) each other equally and with dignity but who also don’t fly into a paroxysm of rage … Continue reading →

Laugh, cry, or hold a protest, foie gras is one of the Prick’s top five pleasures in the world. Unfortunately it’s very hard to come by in Australia except in imported, pre-packed, and heat-pasteurised forms: An unholy alliance of class … Continue reading →

Via Bruce Palling at Gastroenophile, this Brasserie Chavot joint in London sounds like fun: “The point here is the food, which is the sort of brilliant faux paysanne stuff you get when you put a culinary aristocrat in the kitchen. … Continue reading →

Gambling is not the Prick’s thing, but it’s hard to argue with Gai Waterhouse: “They’re anti every industry in Australia, every industry in Australia they want to completely kill, and then they wonder why we’re going belly up. I tell … Continue reading →

Suzanne Moore, writing in The Guardian, speaks out on behalf of Britain’s poor, living in a country where food has become (though hasn’t it always been?) a class signifier: We are the seventh richest nation in the world, but there … Continue reading →

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