简介: A documentary on the history of garlic. Blank interviews chefs, garlic lovers, and historians about the their love of the 'stinking rose.' Often referred to as a stinking rose, garlic, in its culinary uses, generally evokes a love it or hate it response. Quite often, these responses are on cultural lines, where old world cultures have generally revered it in their cooking, while new world cultures have not. A renaissance of sorts is taking place in the use of garlic in the United States, with more and more immigrants bringing their use of the spice to the country, with more people desiring more spice in their food, with a desire to get back to the land and with the production of plant a large part of the Central California landscape. Many chefs are presented preparing dishes prominently featuring the spice. On the bad side, the association of garlic to bad breath is discussed. On the other side, its purported health benefits are also discussed. Other topics presented include its association to vampirism, and speculation of how people will want their garlic to be presented to them in the future.
乔贝兹·威廉姆斯/格雷格·T·尼尔森/海瑟·欧罗克/奥利弗·罗宾斯/赛尔达·鲁宾斯特恩/威尔·萨姆森/罗伯特·莱萨/杰拉丁·菲茨杰拉德/Julian Beck/John P. Whitecloud/Noble Craig/Susan Peretz/海伦·贝尔/Kelly Jean Peters/Jaclyn Bernstein/