Epicurious has two posts up this week dealing with one pretty unavoidable part of the holidays: drinking, occasionally to excess.
The more sensible of the two posts focuses on preventative medicine: making good decisions, drinking water, and generally avoiding the dark side of the drunk moon. Key pointers include eating something (duh), not drinking as much as you brought to a party (you didn't bring that whole bottle of wine just for yourself), and trying out new drinks (novelty breeds caution).
If all of that fails, however, there's a post on The Hungover Cookbook to help you make it through the next day. The book's author, Milton Crawford, cribbed a heuristic from P.G. Wodehouse to classify hangovers, breaking them down into six distinct types: the Broken Compass, the Sewing Machine, the Comet, the Atomic, the Cement Mixer, and the (dreaded) Gremlin Boogie. Head over to Epicurious to check out how to deal with each.
[via Epicurious]
Photograph by Zach DeSart; animation by Erik Peterson