BLUE FIX: Long Island Restaurant Week was such a success at East Northport’s The Blue Room (93 Larkfield Rd., E Northport 631.261.5761) that Anastasia and Nick have decided to keep it going. They’re offering a $24.95/pp, 3-Course Prix Fixe Menu all day Sunday and up to 6:30p.m., Tuesday through Friday. As always, Wednesday night is for music lovers; enjoy live acoustic Blues with Al Santoriello of The Little Wilson Band, 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. – and don’t be surprised to hear Anastasia join in a song or two from behind the bar.

TEA TIME: The Half Hollow Hills Historical Association is holding its annual Afternoon Holiday Tea on Sunday, December 14 at 2p.m. Bring your favorite tea cup and enjoy tea, cakes and stories of local lore. The tea will be held at the old schoolhouse at 5 Seaman's Neck Rd.  in Dix Hills. Tickets are $10. To purchase tickets call Marjory at 631.667.8751.

GREEN WINE: They’re always on the cutting edge, but it didn’t take the latest trend in marketing to turn the folks behind HONU Kitchen & Cocktails (363 New York Ave., Huntington, 631.421.6900) into environmentalists. Honu has introduced a new Green & Goodwill wine list featuring organic and green wines as well as select wines where a portion of the sales goes to charitable foundations.  Some examples: Sokol Blossor “Evolution” 2006, Salem, Oregon ($35); Sterling Sauvignon Blanc 2007, Napa Valley ($34); Pommery “Pop” Champagne N.V., Champagne, France ($10 split) and M. Chapoutier Belleruche Cote Du Rhone 2006, Rhone Valley, France ($35) are 100-percent organic. Order the Hope Chardonnay 2006, California ($40) and 50-percent of the profits from the wine will go to Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation to help fight breast cancer. The Hope Cabernet Sauvignon 2006, California ($40) will generate a donation for autism research; while the Hope Merlot 2006, California ($40) will raise n=money for AIDS research. As if you needed an excuse to drink.

OH, THE FUTILITY OF IT: The holiday season means extra pounds, extra inches and for at least some of us, a healthy dose of guilt. Noting that the endless buffet of holiday treats leave people starting the new year unhealthy and unfit, Dr. David Ostreicher, author of Brush Your Teeth and Other Simple Ways to Stay Young and Healthy from Wheatmark Publishing (www.brushyourteethbook.com) says, just brush your teeth. He said that although “Americans are fat and do not exercise… we are living longer, far longer, than our grandparents did.” Why? Hygiene, he declares. Attention to mental and physical hygiene, starting with healthy eating and brushing those pearly whites, will help assure that you’ll be around for many more holidays to come. “The American diet is one of excesses. We eat too much, too many calories, too much fat, too much salt and too much sugar. And those elements make up the ‘Foul Four’ dietary villains.” The doc says avoiding those four is a good start. How to fit that into your schedule of holiday excesses—well that’s up to you.

TOO TEMPTING: Guiness Book dreams for the operators of a Tehran food festival led them to spend two days construction the world's longest sandwich – allegedly. We say allegedly because after two days of work, a hungry and apparently impatient crowd attacked the 1,500-meter sandwich scarfing down the half-ton of ostrich meat on bread before Guinness representatives could get out their tape measures. Record-seekers reportedly are asking the Guinness folks to review video and photographs which they claim will confirm that a record had been set.

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