Originating in Central Asia over 5,000 years ago, we’d be hard-pressed to think of a crop that has made its way around the world the way garlic has. Originating in Central Asia more than 5,000 years ago, garlic has been used for both medicinal and culinary purposes—it’s been featured prominently in dishes from ancient China to Medieval Europe and has worked its way into cuisines of the Americas since the Columbian Exchange of the late 15th century.
Fun, flavourful, easy to grow and inexplicably expensive at the grocery store, few crops are
