Anna Tobias turns her attention to the turnip – a versatile root vegetable that's great at soaking up other flavours whilst imparting its own pleasing bitterness to dishes. Take a look at why she loves them and her three recipes that celebrate turnips in all their glory.

There's nothing more forlorn than a limp stick of celery, abandoned and forgotten in the bottom of a salad drawer. In the first of a new series on unglamorous vegetables, Anna Tobias presents a few of her favourite ways to make the most of this unsung hero of the kitchen.