Some (me) liken it to the Super Bowl, Oscar night, and New Year’s Eve all rolled into one. Others (my editors) see it as a self-indulgent waste of space that could be put to better use — like maybe ...

“Each year for more than a decade, we have embarked on a dyspepsia-inducing quest for the finest flapjacks in town.” So goes the first sentence of this year’s Flapjack Flip-Off XI, which pretty much ...