Garlic Reviews

Garlic is the English name for Allium sativum, which belongs to the same family with the onion and leek. Its origin go back to China and these days it is a product you can find easily in each country in Europe. Garlic has got a quite strong taste when raw, and if it is cooked will become milder in taste. It is easy to have your ...  Read the complete review

Having just converted a segment of lawn to veg bed late last spring, in a moment of grow-your-own enthusiasm we stuck in some garlic to see what would happen. I wasn't expecting much as we planted shop-bought garlic intended for culinary purposes, using individual cloves separated out from a bulb we purchased at Tescos' that we had in our fridge ...  Read the complete review

You either love or hate the smell and taste of this wonderful white bulb. Having lived two years in Italy garlic was part of my daily diet, be it in home made tomato sauce, as garlic and herb focaccia or the delicious garlic chicken that still hunts me in my dreams. I could probably eat pure garlic and have to agree with Jamie Oliver ...  Read the complete review

Last night I had some guests over for dinner and for the hundredth time someone complimented on the small home grown dried braid of garlic, thyme and red-chilli I keep hung in my kitchen as a reminder of my last years hard effort at gardening. Not surprisingly they were the only plants that were left untouched by the slugs and snails which ran ...  Read the complete review

Ah the pungent smell of garlic, you either love it or hate it! But whichever of the sides you take, there is no denying its magical properties! No it wont turn you into Cinderella or prince charming, but it will keep you from quite a few nasty symptoms that so easily beset us! I will relate a few that are tried and proven, by myself. If ...  Read the complete review

Unbelievable I know. For some (still) unknown reason in January I started getting severe inner and outer ear infections. I went to the doctors with all the usual symptoms: severe pain, swelling, hearing loss, ringing etc. Was prescribed antibiotics some kind of penicillin and completed the 7 day course, pain went off ...  Read the complete review

Garlic has many uses in the kitchen. I use it for flavouring pizza, making garlic chicken and bread and for bolognese sauces, to name but a few possibilities. The main reason I like it is because I get it free. How do I do that? Well, its easy. I am the world's laziest gardener and even I have an amazing garlic ...  Read the complete review

Despite the adverse effect it has on your breath I do use a lot of garlic when I cook, the main problem in this country is getting hold of a good quality garlic bulb that actually has some tatse. Unfortunately the stuff you find in supermarkets is poor in this country, when it is in season at a local farmers market there is one seller who has some ...  Read the complete review

When you say garlic you automatically think strong tasting food that makes your breath stink, it's been known to ruin many a good meal..... But did you know that people in the medical profession have identified more than 100 non - culinary uses for garlic?! Garlic has been used to treat illness right back to when the pyramids ...  Read the complete review

Garlic is known as the wonder drug. It is a member of the onion, shallot and leek family. Garlic has been grown and used in the Mediterranean for thousands of years in cooking and remedies. Although it is just as easy to grow garlic in colder climates. I use garlic in most of the meals I cook for the flavour and because I know the ...  Read the complete review

It is indicative of the change that has gone on in British cooking in the last 20 years or so that garlic is now one of the most widely grown edible plants in the UK. Garlic (allium sativum) has been recognised for centuries for its healing properties - there are references to it in Egyptian and Roman texts dating back for millennia. ...  Read the complete review

Garlic has been around since recorded history began. Allium sativium, to give it its Latin name is actually classes as a herb although it is part of the onion family along with leeks and shallots. A potted history ************** Garlic originated in central Asia. It was worshipped by the ancient Egyptians and even used as a ...  Read the complete review

The proper name for garlic is Allium sativum and it is part of the onion family. The word garlic comes from the old German word garlaeac, which means ‘spear leek’. The gar means spear and refers to the pointy leaves and lic means leek, which is another member of the onion family. Garlic is a bulb which, when mature, has segments called cloves ...  Read the complete review

Back again with probably one of the most used herbs in the cooking world – Garlic The amount of time I hear people say I hate Garlic and won’t cook with it, or I don’t like the smell of it. They are so ignorant they don’t even know it’s used in most everyday things ranging from peri-peri sauce to ready meals and in lots of tinned food ...  Read the complete review

Garlic (sometimes known as 'Stinking Rose' or 'Poor Mans Treacle' has long been used for culinary and medicinal purposes. It was certainly in use around 3000bc, as the six bulbs of garlic found in the tomb of Ramses proves, while the Charaka Samhita, a Sanskrit medical text dating from 2000 bc also contains references to the use of garlic for ...  Read the complete review

Garlic is one of the easiest thing to grow in the garden, the most useful herb to have in the house and boasts one of the most interesting heritages of all plants. Grown from seeds or cloves, it is very cold tolerant and so may be planted before the end of the frosts. It does best in rich well drained soils, does not like too much water and ...  Read the complete review

**Introduction** I thought it was about time for another of my herb ops, and as I use garlic so much (an not just for warding off those vampires) that I ought to make it my next choice.Although not strictly a herb it's culinary uses and properties and even growing nature gives me the excuse I need to count it in with my herb ...  Read the complete review

Garlic, every vampires nightmare, well not just vampires some people will put up their noses at it and to be honest so did I at one time, but not anymore. As a lover of gardening I like to grow herbs and garlic is on of the plants which is easy to grow and has so many good uses. The garlic family is quite large and amongst its family ...  Read the complete review

Garlic. Alium sativum Garlic is a member of the onion family used in a lot of cookery well known for its taste and smell The name comes from Anglo Saxon “gar” a lance and “leac” meaning a pot herb. It is a perennial grows with a bulb with 5-15 bulblets (cloves) leaves grow up to24 inches 60 cm long has ...  Read the complete review

Garlic is another one of nature's wonders. For something so small, it doesn't half make a difference in our kitchens and our health. It is incredibly versatile and an absolute must in both the store cupboard and the medicine cabinet. What is garlic? +++++++++++++++ Is it a vegetable? is it a herb? Is it a bulb? ...  Read the complete review