In Pursuit of Garlic: An Intimate Look at the Divinely Odorous Bulb

by Liz Primeau

Book Overview

Garlic has been used throughout history as a nourishing food and a magical medicine, healing everything from toothaches to dysentery. For much of this past century many dismissed its medicinal qualities as folk remedies more efficiently replaced by modern drugs -- but today garlic is undergoing a renaissance. Not only are more people cooking with garlic, they are also growing it in their backyards. And scientists are studying garlic's antibiotic,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1553656016
• ISBN13: 9781553656012
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Greystone Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 7.4"