Garlic News

A quick Google search will tell you that National Garlic Day was actually April 19, but the Akron Aeros will be honoring the plant that launched a thousand mints May 20.

Garlic has been around since ancient times, and anyone who doesn't like it will certainly agree it smells like it has.

House rabbits and other small pets greatly enjoy fresh, tender herbs , and nothing beats the convenience of having those herbs growing right outside your door! You can tuck some chamomile or cilantro into a little corner of your garden or into a flower pot, and even apartment dwellers with no room for a garden can grow herbs in a sunny window or ... (more)

Sinclair Schuller saw his first profit-and-loss statement at 15. His Romanian father had just died, and his Italian mother needed help running the family farm growing garlic and raising 50,000 quail.

I was chopping vegetables for dinner recently when my 14-year-old daughter, Grace, disappeared with the unusable end of the bok choy.

And besides the garlic benefits, it's a tasty flavoring. Plus, growing garlic is extremely easy.

Elephant garlic is not considered a garlic --botanically it's really a type of leek and part of the lily family.

As well as pebbles, hearing aid parts, and buttons from mobile phones, other items have included a clove of garlic - because the patient suffering from earache had read that garlic has antibiotic properties.

This recipe adapted from Food.com makes a great side dish with roasted meat or fish with steamed rice or couscous.

When markets and farm stands open for the season, the crops are fresh, fragrant and mildly flavored.

Spring offers the chance to get beyond the urban concrete, even if it's just visiting parks or local woods.

You smell wild garlic long before you see it. Driving down a country lane, the odour wafts through open car windows.

As the weather heats up and spring turns into summer, Garlic and Baby Spinach Soup is a refreshing start to any meal.

I was chopping vegetables for dinner recently when my 14-year-old daughter disappeared with the unusable end of the bok choy.

Mankind's love of garlic, part of the onion family, dates back to the Egyptian pyramids.

Sonja Gigliotti drinks two tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil from a small cup like a desperado drinks whiskey from a shot glass -- with one tip.

This tangy aioli is ideal as a dipping sauce for steamed artichokes , a spread on toasted bread to jazz up a What to buy: Green garlic is garlic that is harvested in the spring before the full bulb is allowed to develop.

Appetizers set the mood for any party, whether it's a holiday party, birthday party, baby shower, or elegant dinner party.