One bite of Savi Seed and you’ll appreciate Mary Poppins’ view that a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. Though in this case, more than a spoonful is needed to distract from the awful taste of this latest […]
Author: Iain Ilich
Review: Vegetarian chicken wings? Who knew?
Now, correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the whole point of chicken wings the bones? The amount of work necessary to pick away every last strand of meat from the bones always struck me as a waste of time […]
How To: Use up spare milk before it expires
Buying groceries is all about estimation. You do your best to judge how much lettuce you’re going to use between trips to the store, or how many bowls of cereal you’ll shovel down your gullet before the next trek to […]
Review: Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bites
When was the last time you plopped a spoonful of uncooked muffin batter into your mouth, or eagerly chowed down on a chunk of raw bread dough before putting a loaf in the oven? But cookie dough? Who hasn’t tasted […]
Review: Steinlager Classic beer
When I think of Steinlager beer, I think not of its native New Zealand, but of Hawaii, where it seems to be about as readily available as Bud Light. While you couldn’t call it a local beer (it isn’t), you […]
Company’s Coming, newspapers, and the byline rush
Given enough time, deadlines and stories churned out, plenty of writers turn cynical about what they do. The repetition of shuffling words from brain to screen by way of fingers, day after day, is a tedious process far less romantic […]
Review: Maui Style Maui Onion potato chips
The Look: Palm trees, a big wave and a surfing Maui onion are printed on the foil bag. Inside, the chips themselves are all curly and thick. They’re what I’d call a golden yellow colour, not much different from the […]
Review: Chocolate peanut butter mochi
It’s no secret that I love mochi ice cream. I reviewed the tiny ones made by Lotte earlier on NEAROF!, and I’ve loved almost every other brand of mochi ice cream I’ve tried so far. I’ve only recently started to […]