You've probably received all kinds of advice to aid planning your New Year's Eve celebrations: champagne recommendations, cocktail recipes, dinner ideas, the best bars to hit.
But think about New Year's Day: chances are you'll be waking up with a hangover. You've spent hours planning your New Year's Eve, why not put a little effort into the pre-production of the morning after to ease the pain.Can't stomach the thought of cooking the morning after? Just keep the festive atmosphere going and head out to a restaurant:
- Fort Defiance
Brunch all day, 9am - 11pm, featuring baked ham, grits, black-eyed peas and collards, and other favorites. - City Winery
Serving a New Year's Day special hangover brunch from 12:30pm to 4:30pm. - Balthazar
Balthazar does breakfast right, what better a morning after cure than a Full English Breakfast with eggs, bacon, beans, sausage, mushrooms, tomatoes, and fried bread. - Blue Ribbon Brasserie
As always, open 4pm - 4am, so once you have recovered, get out there for a proper meal.
Other options? Here's a list of New York area restaurants open on New Year's Day (OpenTable).
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SCIENCE: Consider the three things you'll be facing:
- dehydration
- withdrawal symptoms affecting the nervous system
- the toxins that remain in the body.
Researchers claim food speeds up the metabolism helping the body get rid of the booze.
REAL LIFE: "Why did I have that last Scotch?" "How many glasses of Champagne did I have?" "What was her name?"
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SCIENCE: Caffeine is a stimulant and a vasoconstrictor, so it reduces the size of blood vessels.
REAL LIFE: You are groggy. You have a pounding headache. A good cup of coffee will start you on the right foot. Beans from Intelligentsia or Stumptown Coffee will begin your New Year right.
CONSIDER: Caffeine is a diuretic, which causes dehydration. Not the best cure, but it might help jump start your day.
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SCIENCE: Fructose naturally increases the body’s energy and the rate which the body rids itself of toxins. Juice helps replenish nutrients that were depleted from alcohol’s diuretic effect.
REAL LIFE: There is nothing quite as reviving as a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice.
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SCIENCE: Bread is high in carbohydrates and bacon is full of protein, which breaks down into amino acids and helps clear the head.
REAL LIFE: Just the smell of bacon can waken some from the dead. Two words: Bacon Butty. Try Flying Pigs heritage breeds bacon and pick up a multi-grain loaf from your local bakery (think Balthazar or Sullivan Street).
CONSIDER: Nothing to consider here, it's been proven by science.
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SCIENCE: Eggs replenish certain amino acids, which break down the hangover-causing toxin acetaldehyde in the liver's easily depleted glutathione.
REAL LIFE: Eggs are the perfect accompaniment to bacon. It's like the breakfast holy trinity: eggs, bacon, toast.
CONSIDER: The cholesterol? After what you did to your body on New Year's Eve, just get on the mend. Work on the New Year's resolutions on January 2nd.
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SCIENCE: It reintroduces ethanol (alcohol) into your system at a point when your liver is breaking down an alcoholic compound called methanol, which is more toxic than the ethanol.
REAL LIFE: Convince yourself there are vitamins in the tomato juice and feel better in the short term.
CONSIDER: You're delaying the inevitable, the hair of the dog approach won't eliminate the hangover.
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SCIENCE: None.
REAL LIFE: Try the Southern staple Hoppin' John, made with black-eyed peas, smoked ham hocks, and onion. It's said to bring a year filled with good luck, if served on New Year's Day.
CONSIDER: Is it really worth risking a year of bad luck?
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