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by Robin Cherry


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Featuring over 100 delicious, garlic-laden recipes, this culinary biography offers a tour through the colorful history of one of the world's 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 garlic--until 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 isn't slighted, Garlic offers over 100 recipes featuring the beloved ingredient.

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  • Title Garlic, an Edible Biography: The History, Politics, and Mythology Behind the World's Most Pungent Food--With Over 100 Recipes
  • Author Robin Cherry
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Roost Books
  • Date 2014-11-11
  • ISBN 9781611801606 / 1611801605
  • Weight 0.83 lbs (0.38 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.14 x 6.06 x 0.69 in (23.22 x 15.39 x 1.75 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Garlic, Cookbooks
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014007482
  • Dewey Decimal Code 641.352

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  • Library Journal, 10/01/2014, Page 104

About the author

Travel writer and historian ROBIN CHERRY is the author of Catalog: The Illustrated History of Mail-Order Shopping. She was the publisher of Organic Style books and the circulation director of Organic Gardening and Organic Style magazines at Rodale. She has written for The Atlantic, Travel + Leisure, Dwell, Salon, and many other publications and websites.
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