Garden Party cocktail with celery, cilantro, and grapefruit juice. Credit: Arielle Stevenson

Garden Party cocktail with celery, cilantro, and grapefruit juice. Credit: Arielle Stevenson

Garden Party cocktail with celery, cilantro, and grapefruit juice. Credit: Arielle Stevenson

Celery is the Gary Oldman of vegetables; constantly morphing in presentation but consistently doing great things through the ages. You can count on celery. Julia Childs always stuffed her Thanksgiving birds with celery leaves. A great tip, if you've never tried it by the way.