Garlic News

Partly due to the belief that the pungent bulb can help ward off A influenza, garlic prices have rocketed more than 10-fold in recent months.

The Chinese have always had a taste for the bulb vegetable that makes your breath smell but now there has been an incredible surge in its price, which makes the property boom look static by comparison.

Roasted Eggplant wrapped in a flour tortilla with spinach, roasted red peppers, tomato, olives, and feta.

A look at the meteoric rise in the price of garlic - the best-performing asset class of this year - from Robert Cookson and Patti Waldmeir for the Washington Post Foreign Service : Wholesale garlic prices in Beijing are now 15 times as high as in March, and still rising.

If you want to get rich in China, the way to do it this year is to buy and sell garlic.

Shanghai stocks have done very well, copper has soared and property has been blazing.

The price of garlic in China has nearly quadrupled since March, propelled by its very pungency to rank ahead of gold and stocks as the country's best-performing asset this year.

Pass it in a gravy boat with a spoon. 1 cup parsley leaves 2 coarsely chopped cloves garlic 3 tablespoons orange juice 1 tablespoon sherry vinegar 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon black pepper 1/2 teaspoon sugar 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil 1. Place the parsley and garlic in the food processor or blender; process until ...

Everyone loves roasted garlic mashed potatoes, and the parsnips add a subtle sweetness that I adore.

Published: Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 10:49 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 10:49 a.m. Fall is a busy time in a Southern vegetable garden.

Allium sativum is the scientific name for garlic. It is a member of the Amaryllidacae family, that also includes such things as onion, chives and shallots.

A simple recipe with five-star quality taste. This creamy and flavourful soup tantalizes the taste buds and arouses the senses.

Belgrade's open-air markets were a welter of busy customers on Friday, pushing and shoving to buy one item - garlic.

Primary producers on the NSW mid-north coast are assessing the damage from the sixth flood event to hit the region this year.

Spice up your holiday potatoes, add garlic. AP Photo You might see garlic as a food that smells or that tastes bad but there are still insurmountable benefits that garlic has that nothing else can touch.

Yep. Garlic. The planting season for garlic starts now in our Mid-Atlantic zone, just when you might be putting the rest of your garden to bed for the winter, and it extends until Thanksgiving.

Raw garlic may not be most people's idea of a tasty snack, but details have emerged of Irish Finance Minister Brian Lenihan's unlikely fondness for munching on the herb.

Black Olive and Roasted Garlic Tapenade. A garlic-rich spread designed to keep vampires away Halloween night.

Garlic has also been linked to a rise in Happy Belly Syndrome, a condition characterized by such symptoms as frequent spoon licking, blissful sighs, and a tendency to break into smiles.

(Warning: Happy Belly Syndrome may be habit forming and lead to Second-or-Third-Helping-itus.)

Just thinking about garlic can automatically bring about thoughts of Italian fare such as garlic pasta or bread, or your favorite Asian stir-fry. But what also might come to mind is the smell.