Okay, you know the drill: in about another week, you’ll feel all kinds of pressure to get in shape, wake up when your alarm goes off and generally limit your heaping portions of vice. Which still leaves you plenty of time to enjoy it while you can. Herewith, some suggestions...
We’re happy to report that your days of sipping wine without cookies are over. This local business bakes up cookies with rosemary, sea salt and other ingredients to make them pair with reds, whites and sparklers. Call them the adult Keebler elves.
A totem to excess, chef Scott Drewno’s 15-Layer Carrot Cake is being boxed up in three sizes for home consumption. Because every year should finish with endless platefuls of cream cheese.
Ah, West Virginia. Home of coal, Jennifer Garner and risking your fortune at 4am. The new casino there deals 27 tables of tournament and cash poker, 24 hours a day. It’s also the only thing in the state not named after Robert Byrd.
The NFL playoffs are looming. You need to be properly fueled. Like with this common-sense-defying concoction of fried chicken and bacon, served on a doughnut glazed with maple-chicken jus. And the tears of your date.
At this ultra-luxe resort in the Pennsylvania hills, you’ll do something decidedly un-luxe: strap yourself into a jeep and tackle a rocks course and 20 miles of off-road trails. It’s not exactly green, but we won’t tell Gore if you won’t.
There’s something particularly conspicuous about dropping a few K’s in the name of a romantic romp. That said, this huge, multiroom suite—long a favorite of honeymooners—features an enormous whirlpool tub that looks out directly at the Washington Monument. Which is suggestive, to say the least.
