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America’s culinary take-over of Australia is officially complete. It’s getting so you can’t swing a cat in any self-respecting semi-hip suburb without hitting a cowboy-themed bourbon bar. (In the old days all you’d get was reported to the RSPCA). Banks … Continue reading →

Regular readers of this space know that there are few things that warm (and, perhaps, clog) a Prick’s heart like a really good Reuben sandwich – creditable versions of which are now happily popping up all over Sydney. Regulars also … Continue reading →

It’s getting so a man can’t go out for dinner at some hip new inner-city eatery without running into Sydney Morning Herald food critic Terry Durack. A few months ago we wandered down the road to that little gem of … Continue reading →

Been a busy few days, but keep your bookmarks set here for lots of hot Prick With a Fork action coming up soon!

In Australia? Got a TV? Tune into Sky News (ch. 601) at 1:30pm AEDT – I’ll talking politics. US politics, that is. Don’t got a TV? Good on you for avoiding the slum of popular culture. But you should still … Continue reading →

Having lived in Sydney’s Inner West for over two years now, I can say that this quote from local early-middle-aged white boy “rapper” and family man Paul Knight, a.k.a. Pee Kay, captures the essence of the place better than I … Continue reading →

There are two things you are not allowed to call Michelle Obama. One is “angry black woman”. The other is “generous host”, at least when the guests for the White House’s “kids’ state dinner” (well, lunch, actually) are concerned: The … Continue reading →

Random thoughts on a recent lunch: I’ve walked past the Sydney Mint Café probably a hundred times over the years, but I never knew it existed until a friend suggested we dine there last week. Tucked up on a balcony … Continue reading →

Are the barbarians at the gate? Heavens, no. They’re already inside, sacking and looting their asses off and making a buck, or at least trying to, in the process. I had never heard of Lauren Conrad until yesterday, when I … Continue reading →

Someone, somewhere – I can’t remember whom nor can I find the quote – once said that our lives are like novels, and while we may experience them intensely in the moment, as time passes we just remember flashes of … Continue reading →