Curious Cook: A cure for hangover and other – hic! – holiday tales

Men drink beer at a restaurant in Hanoi. Photo: Reuters

If, like me and countless other people, you tend to overdo the drinks at celebration events such as weddings, birthdays, Christmas, New Year, or even weekends, you probably wouldn’t want to read about what had actually happened to your body.

Or perhaps you might – at least I myself eventually decided to investigate the actual and potential damage that bingeing on alcohol might have done to the body, but it took some 15 years to work up the motivation.