Author Archives: chiefprick

So the Prick just ran across, a week or so too late for Christmas, Buzzfeed’s list of the fifteen best cookbooks of 2012. Honestly, not a helluva lot there of interest, save for April Bloomfield’s A Girl and Her Pig: … Continue reading →

A friend recently put me on to – trust me on this one – a wonderful episode of The Dick Cavett Show in which Cavett talks with both John Cheever and John Updike at the same time. For lovers of post-war … Continue reading →

… or he’ll start putting cyanide in the salt shakers: Frustrated that people continued to consume so much alcohol even after it was banned, federal officials had decided to try a different kind of enforcement. They ordered the poisoning of … Continue reading →

“Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was born on that day; and then smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; … Continue reading →

… can be found here. I made a batch last Christmas, and it was stunning. Mrs Prick’s father took one sip and declared, “I won’t be right to drive for a week!”

Booze. Smokes. Sprouts? They are the vegetables that split opinion and now doctors say Brussels sprouts should come with a health warning after a man was hospitalised by eating them. The leafy green vegetables contain vitamin K, a chemical the … Continue reading →

And so Tuesday night turned into an impromptu date night, with Mr and Mrs Prick ducking across to Annandale to check out the new Sede restaurant which has just opened up in the old Vicini space on Booth Street. That’s … Continue reading →

The Australian has picked up the Prick’s thoughts on Prof. Rachel Davey of CRAP Health:

The University of Canberra’s Professor Rachel Davey’s got the obesity problem sorted: During the second world war (1939–1945), the British government introduced food rationing with a point system in every household. Everyone was allocated a number of points a month … Continue reading →