Author Archives: chiefprick

So while everyone, yours truly included, has got the howling fantods over New York Nanny-in-Chief Mike Bloomberg’s decision to ban big, sugary drinks — a wonderful illustration of the technocrat’s continuing faith in his own power over human nature, the … Continue reading →

The Fairfax journalists’ walk-out may be only a day old, but despite assurances that the thing will be over soon there is every chance that the thing may stretch on for weeks or even months, like a less-stinky, more middle-class … Continue reading →

Sejal Sukhadwala writes on the “bogus” quest for authenticity in cooking, and makes a sound point:   One of the ideas underpinning Claudia Roden‘s cookery books is that food is an integral part of identity. At the launch of her … Continue reading →

It’s kind of funny to think about, because it all seems so long ago, but for most of The Prick’s time in Australia, Bondi Junction was home, or actually, a number of homes: There was the run-down terrace owned by … Continue reading →

Given the title of this blog, you can imagine how squeamish we were when we read this story (which is really not safe for anybody):

When you look at the post below by itself, you see a headline … but not from the home page. Can any WordPress mavens help a Prick out to fix that?

Via David Thompson, news that scientists have invented a super-slippery bottle coating ideal for ketchup and anything else that gets gluggy. A great idea, but one that may have been too long coming for its own good: When was the … Continue reading →

So I’m over at Kinokuniya browsing the cookbook section at lunch today when I notice a well-dressed young Asian woman flipping through a very large, very expensive volume, Nothing unusual about that, sure, but then this happened:   In case … Continue reading →

Slight foray from food to auto-blogging, but I just ran across this story in the Herald and had to run a few numbers: Nissan has knocked back some customers interested in purchasing its first electric car, the Leaf, because they … Continue reading →