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Incongruously given our voting patterns, we Pricks can be just a little bit hippy-dippy when it comes to our food. As such we have all the “right” attitudes about the big supermarket chains (for dog food and paper towels only, … Continue reading →

Pack your bags, kids, we’re going to California: A doughnut filled with foie gras mousse will  be given away for free at two bakeries in San Jose and Campbell, California, on  Friday, also known as National Doughnut Day. The unusual treat, … Continue reading →

Here at Stately Prick Manor we sometimes play a cheese course game called “Literary Restaurant”. The idea is to come up with puns for dishes at a literature-themed eatery. Thus, “Would you like still, sparkling, or tap water for chocolate?” … Continue reading →

This, apparently, is a thing: When some future Gibbon sits down to pen The History of the Decline and Fall of Western Civilisation, this ought to merit a chapter somewhere around the middle of Volume III.

People, can we have a little talk about martinis? I know, I know. This is a naff and clichéd topic. Has anyone had a new insight on the drink since, oh, Dorothy Parker? Probably not. The writers of The Simpsons, … Continue reading →

Years ago (but not that many, thank you very much), when Mrs Prick was just a junior burger of a solicitor getting ready to start her scramble up the greasy pole, she lived in a number of places around Balmain … Continue reading →

On a whim, added a tin of really nice anchovies to tonight’s lamb shank braise. For anyone thinking asking lamby lines, this is a good idea. Especially with a lot of red wine and stock in the pan (cooked down … Continue reading →

Meet nine-year-old Hannah Robertson: McDonald’s needs kids more than today’s kids need McDonald’s. Perhaps no one knows that better than CEO Don Thompson, who was seriously put on the hot seat by a 9-year-old girl at Thursday’s annual shareholder’s meeting … Continue reading →

A rare victory for common sense: In a humiliating U-turn, Dacian Ciolos, the European commissioner for agriculture, admitted that the proposed ban on traditional olive oil jugs, had provoked popular loathing, or “misunderstanding”, from the people that he said wanted … Continue reading →