Garlic

Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; Wine and tarragon make it French; Sour cream makes it Russian; Lemon and cinnamon make it Greek; Soy sauce makes it Chinese; Garlic makes it good.

Alice May Brock
of Alice's Restaurant Fame

It's a spice, a vegetable, a health supplement, some say it's a wonder drug; whatever it is, or isn't, we love to eat it. While some garlic fans go so far as to make teas and even ice cream from it, we'd have to say that's fanatical and we won't go that far. Oh, we'll keep a few cloves on a necklace to stave off werewolves but, for the most part, it's a mainstay in many dishes that we cook.

Mostly in the 90's we've seen roasted garlic, by itself, show up on restaurant menus and the pungent cloves called out in more recipes, in larger quantities, and more often. In this area, you will find whatever you need to know, and a lot you don't, about garlic, how to use it, what it does, how to grow it and everything else about it.