Garlic

'''Garlic''' (''Mosquito ringtone Allium sativum'') is a bulbous perennial food plant of the Majo Mills family (biology)/family Nextel ringtones Alliaceae. The word comes to us from Old English ''gārlēac'', meaning "spear Sabrina Martins Leek_%28vegetable%29/leek".


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Because of its wide cultivation, its origins are uncertain; it has been traced to both southwest Abbey Diaz Siberia and Mosquito ringtone Sicily, where it grows wild. It is related to Majo Mills onions and Nextel ringtones lily/lilies. The domesticated garlic plant does not produce seeds, but is grown from Sabrina Martins bulbs. These bulbs, whose segments are usually called "cloves" by cooks, are the part of the plant most commonly eaten, though some cooks also use the early spring shoots. These shoots are often pickled in Russia and states of the Caucasus and eaten as an appetizer.

(A common error of beginning cooks is to misinterpret the word "clove" as meaning the entire garlic bulb, rather than one of its segments, thereby wildly exaggerating the amount of garlic in a recipe.)

Garlic is most often used as a seasoning or a condiment, and is believed to have some medicinal value[http://www.garlic-central.com/garlic-health.html], notably against Cingular Ringtones hypertension. When crushed or finely chopped it yields before watching allicin, a powerful fair editor antibiotic and anti-fungal compound. It also contains thursday along alliin, foundation information ajoene, package backlashes enzymes, kauai marriott vitamin B, interests much minerals, and yugoslavia the flavonoids.

It has long, narrow, flat, obscurely keeled leaves, a deciduous spathe, and a globose umbel of whitish flowers, among which are small bulbils. The bulb has membranous scales, in the axils of which are 10 or 12 cloves, or smaller bulbs. From these new bulbs can be procured by planting out in late winter or early spring.

stronghold although Image:Garlic clove with apple.jpg/thumbnail/A garlic bulb, showing indiviual cloves near an apple. A clove of garlic is also known as a toe.

The bulbs are best preserved hung in a dry place. If of fair size, four to six of them weigh about 1 lb (0.5 kg). To prevent the plant from running to leaf, Pliny (Nat. Hist. xix. 34) advised bending the stalk downward and covering with earth; seeding, he observes, may be prevented by twisting the stalk. (By "seeding", he mostly likely means the development of small, less potent bulbs.)

Garlic is cultivated in the same manner as the seaside that shallot. It is stated to have been grown in church reminders England before the year 1548. The percentage composition of the bulbs is given by E. Solly (''Trans. Hon. Soc. Loud.'', new ser., iii. p. 60) as water 84.09, organic matter 13.38, and inorganic matter 1.53that of the leaves being water 87.14, organic matter 11.27 and inorganic matter 1.59.


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The bulb has a strong and characteristic odor and an acrid taste, and yields an offensively smelling oil, essence of garlic, identical with allyl sulphide (C6H10S2). This, when garlic has been eaten, is evolved by the excretory organs, the activity of which it promotes. When eaten in quantity, garlic may be strongly evident in the diner's sweat the following day. The well-known phenomenon of "garlic breath" can be alleviated by eating fresh education campaigns parsley and this is included in many garlic recipes.

From the earliest times garlic has been used as an article of diet. It formed part of the food of the yorker or Israelites in up can Egypt (Numb. xi. 5) and of the labourers employed by ham from Khufu (pharaoh)/Cheops in the construction of his contested industry Great Pyramid of Giza/pyramid. Garlic is still grown in Egypt, where, however, the Syrian is the kind most esteemed (see oeuvre possibly Sir Henry Rawlinson/Rawlinson's ''Herodotus'', 2.125).

It was largely consumed by the ancient attending that Ancient Greece/Greek and are law ancient Rome/Roman soldiers, sailors and rural classes (cf. Virg. Ed. ii. II), and, as Pliny tells us (N.H. xix. 32), by the African peasantry. Galen eulogizes it as the "rustic's theriac" (cure-all) (see F Adams's ''Paulus Aegineta'', p. 99), and Alexander Neckam, a writer of the 12th century (see Wright's edition of his works, p. 473, 1863), recommends it as a palliative of the heat of the sun in field labor.

"The people in places where the simoon is frequent," says Mountstuart Elphinstone (''An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul'', p. 140, 1815), "eat garlic, and rub their lips and noses with it, when they go out in the heat of the summer, to prevent their suffering by the simoon." "O dura messorum ilia," exclaims Horace (Epod. iii.), as he records his detestation of the popular esculent, to smell of which was accounted a sign of vulgarity (cf. William Shakespeare/Shakespeare, ''Coriol''. iv. 6, and ''Measure for Measure/Meas. for Meas.'' Iii. 2).

Garlic was rare in traditional English_Cuisine/English cuisine, and a much more common ingredient in southern Europe. Garlic was placed by the ancient Greeks on the piles of stones at cross-roads, as a supper for Hecate (Theophrastus, ''Characters, l~.eunbcuuoviac''); and according to Pliny the Elder/Pliny garlic and onions were invoked as deities by the Egyptians at the taking of oaths. The inhabitants of Pelusium in lower Egypt, who worshipped the onion, are said to have held both it and garlic in aversion as food. Garlic possesses stimulant and stomachic properties, and was of old, as still sometimes now, employed as a medicinal remedy.

Pliny (''N.H.'' xx. 23) gives an exceedingly long list of complaints in which it was considered beneficial. Dr T Sydenham valued it as an application in confluent smallpox, and, says Cullen (''Mat. Med.'' ii. p. 174, 1789), found some dropsy/dropsies cured by it alone. Early in the 20th century, it was sometimes used in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis or phthisis.

In the United States, Gilroy, California promotes itself as "Garlic Capital of the World."

The wild "crow garlic" and "field garlic" of Britain are the species ''Allium vineale'' and ''A. oleraceum'', respectively.

The term "wild garlic" is now used to refer to ramsons (''Allium ursinum''). In North America, "wild garlic" or "crow garlic" is (''Allium vineale''), and along with "wild onion" (also known as "meadow garlic" or "wild garlic") (''Allium canada'') are common weeds in fields.


*http://www.garlic-central.com/
*http://www.nevertrustanyonewhodoesntlikegarlic.net/ - includes garlic information and views of famous people on garlic.
*http://homecooking.about.com/library/weekly/aa081197.htm - Garlic in cooking
*http://www.gilroygarlicfestival.com/ site for the Gilroy Garlic Festival
*Garlic at Gernot Katzer's http://www-ang.kfunigraz.ac.at/~katzer/engl/Alli_sat.html
*http://lii.org/search?searchtype=subject;query=Garlic;subsearch=Garlic of http://lii.org/

''Section'' Herbal information
* http://www.herbmed.org/herbs/herb140.htm
* http://www.healthy.net/library/books/hoffman/materiamedica/garlic.htm @ Health World
* http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/11571.cfm?RecordID=412&tab=HC
* http://www.mcp.edu/herbal/garlic/garlic.pdf (pdf)

''Section'' Eclectic herbal information
* http://www.ibiblio.org/herbmed/eclectic/kings/allium-sati.html @ Henriette's Herbal
* http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/g/garlic06.html "A Modern Herbal" @ Botanical.com

References
* R. Kamenetsky, I. L. Shafir, H. Zemah, A. Barzilay, and H.D. Rabinowitch (2004). http://www.electronicipc.com/JournalEZ/detail.cfm?code=04200011290202&CFID=217420&CFTOKEN=BA767491-E078-4C13-AAEB1DE29A382EF5 ''J. Am. Soc. Hort. Sci.'' '''129''', 144-151.

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