If you were to list those things in life that you wouldn’t want to do without, I doubt that garlic would rank high on your list. But Louis Diat, the late great French chef, took garlic very seriously when he wrote, “Without garlic I simply would not care to live.”

Garlic is a strange herb:

It’s cherished for its culinary qualities. It’s praised for its health benefits. It’s shunned for its tendency to produce bad breath and body odor!…