Claire Lower

Claire is the Senior Food Editor for Lifehacker and a noted duck fat enthusiast. She lives in Portland, Oregon with a slightly hostile cat.
  • How to Keep Your Pooch From Overheating This Summer

    How to Keep Your Pooch From Overheating This Summer

    Summer is well and truly here, my Australian pals. Are you ready? Is your air conditioner ready? If not, we’d better prepare for some uncomfortable weather ahead. With the warmer weather upon us, one of the biggest concerns plaguing families is the impact the summer heat will have on their pet dogs. Heat exhaustion and…


  • The Best Vegan Mashed Potatoes Start With Yukon Golds

    The Best Vegan Mashed Potatoes Start With Yukon Golds

    Non-vegans are always reticent to sacrifice dairy, but if you choose the right spud for your mash (and grab one of those fancy new margarines), you’ll find you don’t need cream to make creamy mashed potatoes. How to pick the right potato for your vegan mash The “right” spud is a Yukon Gold, or other…


  • Make This Single-Serve, Crustless Pumpkin Pie in Your Microwave

    Make This Single-Serve, Crustless Pumpkin Pie in Your Microwave

    For whatever reason, I hate-follow a bunch of keto-focused influencer accounts on Instagram. They’ll lure me in with a bunch of meat, then hit me with a bell-pepper-as-bread “sandwich,” a monstrosity I have been familiar with since the Weight Watching days of my very early 20s. They’re also obsessed with microwaveable, crustless “pumpkin pies,” which…