Now combined in one volume, here are all the recipes from THE GARLIC LOVERS' COOKBOOKS (Volumes I and II) plus prize-winning entries from the Great Garlic Cookoffs. This volume contains over 400 recipes from around the world and also includes a garlic glossary, tips on selection and storage, and much more.

Offers two hundred garlic recipes, explores garlic's medicinal benefits and the myths associated with it, and reviews its more than fifty varieties.

For the Love of Garlic takes a look at the history, lore, and many uses of this culinary treasure. It also provides over eighty tempting kitchen-tested garlic recipes that are designed to entice not only garlic aficionados, but all lovers of great cuisine. Beautifully designed and illustrated, For the Love of Garlic makes both a great gift and an informative guide.

"Updated Edition containing 1980 and 1981 award winning recipes. If the aroma of gently sautéing garlic sets your mouth watering, this book is for you. Featuring recipes from around the world, including garlic laced foods from Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, China, Japan, Korea, India, Greece, and the Philippine Islands, 'The Garlic Lovers' Cookbook' also includes a garlic glossary, garlic history and mystery, and good things to know about garlic. Starting off as an idea to bring favorable attention to the often ignored multimillion dollar garlic industry centered in Gilroy, California, the first annual Garlic Festival, held in August of 1979, attracted more than 30,000 persons in two days. This cookbook is the result of community involvement in the festival. The more than 200 recipes have been tasted and tested by members of the city council, the festival committee, the growers and processors of garlic, and the 50 amateur chefs who were involved in the heart of the festival, Gourmet Alley."--

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.

Offers prizewinning recipes for appetizers, soups, salads, breads, desserts, and meat, poultry, seafood, and vegetable dishes that use garlic.

Offers advice on selecting and cooking steaks, and shares recipes for each type of cut, including tenderloin, porterhouse, strip, rib, rib-eye, sirloin, chuck, round, flank, and skirt

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Includes a wealth of information on buying , storing and preparing onions, from a twice crowned Cookery Journalist of the Year.

This cookbook is devoted to one of the best-loved family of ingredients - onions, garlic, leeks, spring onions, shallots and chives. A comprehensive reference section discusses the culinary history of the allium and identifies all the main varieties, as well as providing a step-by-step guide to growing, preparing and cooking these versatile and popular ingredients. This is followed by 150 recipes, from classic dishes such as French Onion Soup with Gruyere Croutes to contemporary ideas such as Grilled Polenta with Caramelized Onions. Over 800 glorious photographs, informative text and enticing recipes make this book essential for every kitchen