Author Archives: chiefprick

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 →

It’s stock-making Sunday! On the agenda: A gallon of brown chicken stock, which is one of the most useful things one can have around to make sauces and soups and enrichen dishes where plain old white chicken stock won’t do…so … Continue reading →

And I mean, I love this town, but the hell you can’t get a bite to eat at this hour? It’s like a nursing home! Back in New York we’d go out to dinner, then hit a bunch of bars … Continue reading →

Well the show’s had a couple of airings on Lifestyle and by now the secret is out: The Prick’s menu was beaten, coming second to Danielle, her mechanical bull, and her plate of (I can’t believe I’m typing these words) … Continue reading →