One of the easiest ways to tell a real-deal chef from an amateur is to look at their slicing and dicing. Claire is Lifehacker's Senior Food Editor. She has a B.S. in chemistry, a decade of food ...

To make a vegetable version of pasta salad or mac and cheese, you can cut the vegetable itself partially, before spiralizing, to more closely mimic macaroni or other shorter noodles. (Of course you ...