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The 'Ugly' Root Vegetable Gordon Ramsay Wants More People To Start Cooking With By Ben Hillin Nov. 8, 2025 12:00 pm EST

When you think of what to make for dinner, I bet you don't immediately think of celeriac, but Gordon Ramsay might. (And given his incredible loaded English breakfast sandwich recipe , it's easy to trust what he says about food.) Celeriac is a root vegetable that's closely related to celery and as Chef Ramsay rightly notes, it's ugly as sin. It is also called celery root or knob celery and it kind of looks like a potato gone awry. The top kind of looks like shrunken celery, while the bottom (the part you aim to eat) looks a bit like a cratered alien planet that often has little rhizomes shooting off in all directions.

Beneath its ugly exter

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