You’ve got a potluck coming up for Thanksgiving and/or Christmas, and everyone has been tasked with bringing something. “Oh, no!” you think. “I can’t cook, and I don’t want my family, colleagues or fellow inmates to know I can’t feed […]
Recent Articles
Review: River Valley Session IPA
There’s a special place in my heart for cheap and cheerful beers. The kinds of beers you keep in the back of the fridge, waiting for a hot day when you could really use a dose of instant cold, or […]
Arbitrary: Switching to Windows as a Writer
I’ve been an Apple diehard for most of my life. I learned to type, program and piece together my elementary school newspaper on an Apple IIe. In university, I wrote papers on a Mac Classic I bought used from a […]
Review: Rogers Plantation Raw Sugar
Some coffees are rich and complex and full of delicate flavours. They sparkle in the cup, with just the right amounts of acidity and body, with maybe some stone fruit or dried berry character. (Hello, Ethiopian beans!) And some coffees […]
Review: Kettle Chips Dill Pickle Potato Chips
These “Krinkle-Cut” dill pickle Kettle Chips aren’t exactly new, but they’re new to my pantry. I adore dill, and I’m always up for finding new ways to rock the flavour. Dill and potatoes are already a perfect match, which means […]
Review: One Coffee K-Cup Coffee Pods
Brewing coffee at home with a Keurig or Tassimo machine is like announcing to the world that you’re both lazy and incapable of basic supermarket math. It’s absurdly easy to make a standard pot of rudimentary coffee at home – […]
Review: Swell Water Bottle
I have had a general dislike and distrust for insulated bottles since my elementary school days, when the thermos that was included in my Care Bears lunch box (don’t you goddamn judge me) would routinely spill whatever was inside all […]
Wait … something around here looks different
When we launched NEAROF! back in 2010, the idea was to keep at it for a year and see where it went. Well, it’s eight years later and we’re still humming along, but we haven’t done anything with the design […]
What’s a NEAROF?
NEAROF is a food website about the stuff you actually eat, the grub you grab between epic five-course meals. Still confused? Check out our About NEAROF page, or browse the FAQ. 