Garlic 101 - Toronto Garlic Festival

July 30, 2020

Chemistry of Garlic

We’re all familiar with garlic’s distinctive odour and taste, but where does it come from? Harvard-trained chemist Dr. Eric Block has been studying garlic for more than forty ...

May 15, 2016

Did you know?

Allium sativum, commonly known as garlic, is a species in the onion genus, Allium. Its close relatives include the onion, shallot, leek, chive, and rakkyo. Dating back over 6,000 years, garlic ...

July 31, 2020

Garlic and Cultural Stereotypes

Garlic has had a checkered past in many places around the world. Toronto food writer James Chatto tells an intriguing story about his father’s love/hate relationship with garlic. ...

November 23, 2020

Garlic Harvest VR Tour

Toronto Garlic Festival has created a 360-degree live action video of Ontario farmer Simon de Boer working in his fields during the summer garlic harvest. This virtual reality tour gives ...

May 15, 2016

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “There is no such thing as a little garlic.” Arthur Baer “He methodically basted the dark skin of the Alsatian, which he had stuffed with garlic and herbs. ‘One rule ...

July 30, 2020

Garlic Tasting

First-time garlic taste testers are often astonished by the variety of flavours, sweetness and heat levels found in Ontario garlic. A very basic taste test is to try fresh, raw ...

May 15, 2016

Growing Garlic

How to plant, weed, harvest, cure and store garlic. Summary. Hardneck garlic has thrived for millennia in the northern hemisphere in a wide range of soil conditions and climates. With ...

May 15, 2016

Links

Here’s useful information on garlic, including where to buy it, how to grow it, store it and cook with it, and information about the health benefits of garlic. Websites ...

July 30, 2020

Why Vampires Hate Garlic

A persistent belief is the power of garlic is to ward off vampires. Probably the most popular theory of the origin of the vampire is the disease porphyria, a term ...