Dear Heloise: I use lemons a lot for the zesty taste that they give a number of dishes. I was going to make a recipe that called for the lemon zest as well as fresh squeezed lemon juice, but my lemons ...

Lemon zest is not the same as lemon peel. It's the super-thin yellow rind of the lemon. To obtain the zest, you must be sure that you separate it from the pith, the white layer between the rind and ...