We like beer, we really do, although we're feeling a bit overwhelmed by it right now. While we can all agree that: Budweiser isn't very good; the hierarchy of quality goes: draft, bottle, can, malt liquor; Canadians don't drink Labatts, Australians don't drink Foster's and if you do drink Pabst Blue Ribbon it's time to take off the trucker hat and walk away--we can all agree on that--but after that, things get a little murky. Tejal feels our pain. It's too bad she didn't have a beer hotline to call, unlike Leigh, who was the first to use Aider's Wine Lifeline.

After a night of debauchery like that Leigh's going to need some coffee to get going, and luckily, we've got just the thing. Chronicles of a Curious Cook has an eye-opening post on the wonders of Coffee Granita, while Kung Foodie delivers the definitive dissertation on latte art. For goodness' sake, he's even got video posted! For anyone who has more of a sweet tooth, we offer up Christiney's post on finding the perfect hot chocolate in Paris.

When the sugar and caffeine have sufficiently revived us we can generally tell there's more to life than alcoholic drinks. There's things like dessert, which brings Fatimeh's incredibly thorough documentation of her dinner at Alinea to a close, and cherries, which are just now coming into season. We can't wait to see what you all do with them.

Pic taken from Butter Pig (and don't worry, no, the baby didn't actually get any beer).