TRADITIONAL USES

      Garlic is used everyday for cooking.  It is used to flavor food in cooking and pickling.  It comes in many different forms, sometimes in the form of whole or sometimes in the form of sauces or dressings.  Not only is garlic used for food, it is also used as protection against evil spirits, taken place in Europe.  There was even a superstition in ancient Greece that runners should chew garlic to prevent other competitors from overtaking them.

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