I’m not an ambitious cook and my culinary pursuits are limited to the familiar. I know how to peel a potato. I don’t know much else. That’s why I need a guide for more oddly-shaped vegetables like ...

Harvesting root vegetables feels a little bit like Christmas. There's no telling what lies beneath the surface of the soil, and when I yank a carrot out of the ground, there's a tiny bit of joy that ...

Do you have any tips for peeling turnips and rutabaga? They’ve always been hard for me to peel, so much so that I gave up buying them. Especially with rutabaga, I feel I’m going to slice off a digit ...

Claire is Lifehacker's Senior Food Editor. She has a B.S. in chemistry, a decade of food journalism experience, and a deep love for mayonnaise and MSG. I don’t know that there’s a kitchen task less ...