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. Fun guys (and gals) love fungi, mostly of the ...

When my package of Takii Umami Powder ran out recently, more was definitely necessary. I’d mostly been using it to make an extremely simple dip — organic sour cream, minced green onions and/or chives, ...

What if someone told you there's an incredibly easy way to add umami to your home cooked meals, from a fluffy egg scramble at breakfast to a late night chocolate indulgence? You might be surprised to ...

We're always learning new things when we try out recipes in the Foodday Test Kitchen. But every once in a while we discover an ingredient or technique that makes us rethink everything we've been doing ...

We have mushroom recipes galore for so many kinds of mushrooms: king trumpets, oyster, wood ear, chanterelles and more — in salads, quesadillas, soup, pasta, stroganoff and savory bread pudding.

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Among the most widely consumed foods, mushrooms are a highly diverse class of flora. Though there are roughly 14,000 species of fungi that ...

Salted cultured butter, garlic, fish sauce and oyster sauce all lend depth to this pan-fried dish from the cookbook author Andrea Nguyen. By Melissa Clark French cultured butter and Maggi Seasoning ...