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Jeeves, and the Art of Curing the Hangover
Jeeves, valet to Bertie Wooster, is one of the most renowned characters of English fiction. How did he garner fame and notoriety? Well, it all began on the day that Bertie hired him in the first of P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories. Jeeves confronts Bertie's wretching hangover with his magic potion: raw egg, Worcester sauce, and red pepper. As Jeeves puts it: "It is the Worcester sauce that gives it its colour. The raw egg makes it nutritious. The red pepper gives it its bite. Gentlemen have told me they have found it extremely invigorating after a late evening." Lo and behold, the hangover vanished. Bertie attests: "I would have clutched at anything that looked like a lifeline that morning....Hangovers, Classified
From a glossary of hangover categories on The Observer's Word of Mouth blog: Angsty Hangover — in which flashes of the deeply dangerous dialogue that you shared with inappropriate people (colleagues, family members, close friends, exes) return with awful clarity at half hourly intervals through the course of the following morning. There's also "Blatherer's Regret," "The Film of Shame," "Karaoke Hangover," and "The Black Hole," among others. Photograph from iStockPhoto.com...Hot Topics: Technique of the Week | The Food Lab
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8 Delicious Chocolate Cakes and Pies for Valentine's Day
Some might say that chocolate on Valentine's Day is about as unoriginal as you can get. We all remember the first heart-shaped box of overly sweet chocolate bonbons from grade school Valentines. But chocolate gift-giving needn't be a cliché. This year, let's bake our sweethearts chocolate cakes and pies instead! Here are 8 delicious recipes perfect for celebrating your love (of chocolate.)
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