Garlic wasn't always so popular in the US. #garlic #history #food

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[TheRattyBiker]

To be honest, 85% of the meals I cook are made up of a base of Garlic, Onions and Mushrooms - which is the most godly dish within itself if timed right and cooked low and slow so everything gets caramelised {but not burned}

[bland]

I can't imagine a world wothout garlic bread.

[m.pearce]

In the 70s it became very popular in Canada

[guilcarr]

Yeah because all they used was salt n pepper

[reinaldogarcia]

Awesome 😊😮 thanks for educating us all

[longjohn]

Now a lot of your garlic is grown in China and imported instead of the US outside of a few US growers.

[PrashanthBhandary]

In India we're using garlic for more than thousands of years

[jimmyboe]

When did they start using prison camp labor to peel garlic?

[alexsmith]

I guess my family has always been oddballs. I remember my mom cooking with garlic when I was a kid in the mid 50s. I’ve cooked with it ever since. 😎

[alcorthewise]

Hearing the history of spices and herbs makes me glad that I'm in a time where they're widely available, rather than extremely expensive or hated

[grovermartin]

So what other kinds of garlic was used before? You aren't talking about the difference between hardneck and softneck, are you? I'm just ordinary northwest European background, but almost everybody cooked with garlic in northern Ohio and Michigan. Gre it myself starting in the 1970s. I didn't notice any different garlic when I lived in Europe.

[Michele-zk]

I don’t know. I was born in SF and lived there until I was 33. We used garlic a lot in my youth 1953 and on. We used fresh and powdered. It may have taken a while to catch on in other states. The town is lived in had a HUGE Italian presence. I would always here the adults say, “the Italians run this town.” It’s just that many of them were elected to office. Probably why garlic was readily available.

[napleswolverine]

I LOVE GARLIC sometimes I will chew a raw one🔥👁️👅👁️👍🏻

[Mini_Lop]

Raw garlic is the best natural anticoagulant. It's also one of the most essential nutrients for Americans...

[rocktimes]

Discrimination also spreads to ethnic foods...like mackerel is trash fish...now Asian face backlash because of 2 invasive fish, the carp and the snakehead..both are delicacies in

[RobertFothergill-uz]

Garlic salt also made it popular and mainstream

[thingsnexttome]

What the heck is he talking about “we’re so diverse so garlic” ? Or “because garlic” ?
But you just told me it was over 500 years ago a non indigenous Spanish colonial spreading of garlic to where the Spanish garlic was the East and the Western garlics were Italian colonists of garlic. Now, obviously separated by the Rocky Mountains so the two foreign invading non indigenous colonial garlic grew not diversely but mono-culturally, 500 years ago.
Have I misconstrued the message?

[johngalt]

I live near gilroy and driving through there when the garlic is ripe for harvest, smells so good!

Garlic, salt, butter and almost burning your food but not quite is the secret to fantastic food.

[道芊櫳]

What kind of European descet American were living in those days? Hard to imagine people whom don't like garlic ....

[celiavicentinapantozziquei]

Tem que colocar, tradução para o português 😮