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. If the mere idea conjures up images of unsavory ...

Let us guess: You forgot to set out the butter to soften up again, didn't you? And now you're left with a brick of dairy that feels like you'll need some sort of power tool just to butter your toast.

Can soft-from-the-fridge, not-quite butters taste as good as the real thing? I enlisted the help of dairy queen Mary Quicke to find out With 25 years of experience as a Telegraph columnist, chef and ...

For years, academic Henry Jenkins has been talking about the connections between mainstream content and user-produced content. From his post as the founder and former co-director of the Comparative ...

As someone with an addiction to caffeine that is beginning to near debilitative, I am always in search of new products that'll help augment the six or seven cups of coffee I send coursing through my ...