Garlic Information

 

Reasons to party with garlic

National Garlic Day is April 19th! So celebrate and spend the day eating garlicky dishes.

 

Some fun garlic facts in honor of National Garlic Day:

The average consumption of garlic is around 2 pounds a year.

Garlic juice can be used as glue for glass, paper or porcelain! Crush the garlic cloves. Take the resulting juice and apply to the area to be glued. Press pieces together.

Since garlic is antiviral, antifungal and antimicrobial it has been used to treat sore throats, pimples and cold sores. Raw garlic kills the microorganisms that cause the problem and helps with healing.

Picture: Jane, Susan and Edna admire their fine crop of garlic.

Check out all of fun pages of garlic information.

Learn if garlic can hurt your pets, plan to attend a garlic festival, learn about garlic through the ages, study garlic classification, and check out the ten garlic families.

 

Garlic Superstitions and Garlic Folklore

 

Dreaming about having garlic in your house will supposedly bring you good luck (hopefully actually having garlic in your house is even luckier). Dreaming about eating garlic means that you will uncover a hidden secret or two. Either that or you are sleepwalking into the kitchen again. You'll know by your spouse's reaction to your morning breath which one of these is the case.

Garlic will rid you of bloodsucking vampires, devils, werewolves and the 'evil eye' (European folklore).

Hanging garlic in a room can protect newborns from evil spirits (Greek folklore).

Garlic and onions sprang from the footprints of Satan when he was forced out of the garden of Eden (Mohammed's writings).

Eating garlic repels tigers (Korean folklore). Koreans ate pickled garlic before traveling dangerous mountain passes frequented by striped predators. I think it is more likely that a tiger would appreciate a well seasoned meal!

Garlic braids over your doors bring good luck while repelling thieves and envious people (random modern mismatch of old beliefs)

Garlic will make you strong and give you courage (Greek folklore).

Chicago is named after garlic. The city name is a variation of 'Chicagaoua', the Indian word for wild garlic.

For more on use of garlic see the history of garlic.

 

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