Garlic
A plant of the genus Allium (A. sativum is the cultivated variety), having a bulbous root, a very strong smell, and an acrid, pungent taste. Each root is composed of several lesser bulbs, called cloves of garlic, inclosed in a common membranous coat, and easily separable.
A kind of jig or farce.
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Garlic Quotations
The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.
Jim Harrison
Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.
Cyril Connolly
You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.
Morley Safer
Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any.
Jean Rostand
Salt is a preservative. It really holds flavor. For example, if you chop up some fresh herbs, or even just garlic, the salt will extract the moisture and preserve the flavor.
Sally Schneider
They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.
Luigi Barzini
The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.
Calvin Trillin
What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
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Garlic Translations
garlic in Dutch is look, knoflook
garlic in French is ail
garlic in German is Knoblauch
garlic in Hungarian is fokhagyma
garlic in Italian is aglio
garlic in Portuguese is alho
garlic in Spanish is ajo
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