Garlic has had a checkered past in many places around the world. Toronto food writer James Chatto tells an intriguing story about his father’s love/hate relationship with garlic. He recalled how his British father hated garlic but loved curry, which sometimes was made with garlic. “He never included ...

First-time garlic taste testers are often astonished by the variety of flavours, sweetness and heat levels found in Ontario garlic. A very basic taste test is to try fresh, raw garlic on bread or plain crackers. For each type of garlic, use the same prep method, whether it’s chopped, ...

We’re all familiar with garlic’s distinctive odour and taste, but where does it come from? Harvard-trained chemist Dr. Eric Block has been studying garlic for more than forty years. His book, Garlic and Other Alliums: The Lore and the Science, brings to life the complexity of allium chemistry. ...

A persistent belief is the power of garlic is to ward off vampires. Probably the most popular theory of the origin of the vampire is the disease porphyria, a term for several diseases which are all caused by irregularities in the production of heme, a chemical in blood. Some forms ...