Homegrown garlic is such a luxury for cooks who love fresh ingredients. If you’ve ever wondered how to grow garlic, you’ll be pleased to know it’s one of the easiest crops to master. Just plant a few ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In a letter dashed off from her hunting lodge, Italian Renaissance princess Beatrice d'Este – muse of Shakespeare and friend of Leonardo ...

Garlic is a real multi-tasker: it can lower blood pressure, tackle cholesterol, protect against seasonal viruses, and - if the legend of Van Helsing is to be believed - even ward off vampires. For ...

While it’s tempting to treat garlic as a plant-and-forget crop, it will only reward you richly if you treat it well. A clove planted in the fall won’t magically turn into a fat bulb by summer unless ...

If you're a fan of ultra-flavorful garlic bread, lemon-garlic shrimp or Julia Child's absurdly garlic-forward mashed potatoes, chances are you have plenty of this allium on hand. However, if you're ...

Walt and I plant a lot of garlic every year, just so we can survive between one harvest and the next. Last year’s harvest was so disastrous (2/3 of our crop rotted in the ground because of early ...

Garlic has long had an association with the spooky season: The pungent bulb tends to ward off fanged members of the undead in vampire books and movies. But October is not just a time that garlic makes ...

Long before Marmite, Bram Stoker was on to the love-hate, good versus evil thing. He put his finger on garlic’s delicious irony: it’s the one food we associate with being off-putting to others yet is ...