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 buy my ducks from the Asian market down the ...

Culinary trends come and go for a variety of reasons, and fried food is no exception. You can find examples of deep-fried food back in Ancient Rome, where dough was submerged in hot oil to create ...