num_pages: 240
description: Featuring over 100 delicious garlic-laden recipes this culinary biography offers a tour through the colorful history of one of the worlds most timeless ingredients Garlic is the Lord Byron of produce a lusty rogue that charms and seduces you but runs off before dawn leaving a bad taste in your mouth. Called everything from rustic cure-all to Russian penicillin Bronx vanilla and Italian perfume garlic has been loved worshipped and despised throughout history. No writer has quite captured the epic roving story of garlicuntil now.While this book does not claim that garlic saved civilization (though it might cure whatever ails you) it does take us on a grand tour of its fascinating role in history medicine literature and art; its controversial role in bigotry mythology and superstition; and its indispensable contribution to the great cuisines of the world. And just to make sure your appetite isnt slighted Garlic offers over 100 recipes featuring the beloved ingredient.
language: English
title: Garlic, an Edible Biography: How the World's Most Pungent Food Changed the Course of History, Medicine, and Cuisine
publisher: Roost Books