Finally, the answer for all of us disillusioned dessert addicts, overdosed on cupcakes and fiending for the next treat trend—BROWNIES. It’s back to the gooey basics with Choc, a brand new brownie shop in Culver City. Co-owner Eileen Hespen explains, “Everyone was doing cupcakes and cookies, and I felt like there weren’t any great brownies here in LA.” The drool-worthy brownies are also gluten free and eco-friendly; local and organic ingredients are used whenever possible. Like we need any justification for indulging in these mind blowing flavor combos: peanut butter & honey, coffee & cream, salted caramel…ok it’s time to hop in the car. Or order a box here before I buy them all!

Peanut butter and chocolate ice cream sandwich…drooling.

What is it about ice cream that just screams childhood summers? Even after our favorite frozen treat has enjoyed recent gourmand fame, ice cream still maintains that friendly nostalgia. I’m pretty happy with scooping right from the pint to my mouth, but yesterday’s New York Times featured “Ice Cream Favorites Grow Up,” with ideas for inspired takes on ice cream—and some original recipes that take the now ubiquitous ice cream “creation” to another level of culinary creativity. An ice cream sandwich in a baguette? That qualifies as lunch, right? 

Bite-size malted milk ice cream bonbons elevate ice cream from childhood treat to chic

Rather than wallowing in sorrow, misery, and a debilitating headache, take off your indoor sunglasses and find inner-hangover peace in The Hungover Cookbook (yes, it is misspelled on the cover, if you were too tipsy to notice that). Yes, it has recipes, but it is far more than a mere cookbook!

Whilst still in your buzzed morning haze, take a quick quiz to determine your category of pain and the best course of culinary action for alleviating your tequila-trauma. The method isn’t quite what the doctor ordered, but until a magic hangover curing pill is invented, this book should do the trick—or at least get you out of bed.

 Jokes, some scientific background into why your head hurts so f**king much, and witty anecdotes are dispersed between recipes for surprisingly upscale breakfast recipes such as lemon ricotta pancakes or cardamom porridge with spicy apple sauce. Or maybe your misery calls for something more creative, along the lines of the Elvis Presley: a peanut butter, banana and bacon sandwich—a creation only edible in a slightly inebriated state. Why, how perfect!

Author Milton Crawford’s specialized-to-your-hangover-breakfast approach is based on PG Wodehouse’s 1949 novel The Mating Season, in which upper-class twit Bertie Wooster identifies six varieties of hangover: the Broken Compass, the Sewing Machine, the Comet, the Atomic, the Cement Mixer and the Gremlin Boogie. Regardless of how scientific this cookbook is, literature and liquor together make for an entertaining read, a fabulous gift, or quite possibly the Holy Grail for hangovers.