Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers

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A documentary on the history of garlic. Blank interviews chefs, garlic lovers, and historians about the their love of the 'stinking rose.'A documentary on the history of garlic. Blank interviews chefs, garlic lovers, and historians about the their love of the 'stinking rose.'A documentary on the history of garlic. Blank interviews chefs, garlic lovers, and historians about the their love of the 'stinking rose.'

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- Les Blank
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7.3/10

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Director
- Les Blank
Stars

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Awards
- 1 win total

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Anzonini Del Puerto

Self - Flamenco Singer and Sausage Chef

Kathleen Bendel

Self - Garlic Queen

Harrod Blank

Self - Youth Saved from Dysentary

Mary T. Brown

Self - Cook Who Uses Garlic Salt

Robert Charles

Self - La Veielle Maison, Truckee, CA

Henry Chung

Self - Hunan Restaurant, San Francisco

Rose 'Pistolla's' Evangelisti

Self - Cook and Garlic Lover

Val Filice

Self - Garlic Grower and Squid Chef

George Flintroy

Self - Flint's Barbeque, Oakland

Lloyd John Harris

Self - Publisher: _Garlic Times_

Michael Goodwin

Self - Interviewer, Recordist, Writer, Garlic Peeler

Maura Hagerty

Self - Irish Garlic Eater

Lawrence Hershman

Self - Gardener, Marin County

Werner Herzog

Self - Film Director: Nosferatu

Denni McCarthy

Self - Author: _Living with the Flowers_

Charles Perry

Self - Anti-Vampire Writer

Ruth Reichl

Self - Food Writer: _New West Magazine_

Una Stevens

Self - Belly Dancer

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8/10

This is a great movie about garlic!!

This is a very good movie about garlic with shots from the Gilroy Garlic Festival and lots of good information about cooking with garlic from some of the best cooks in the SF Bay Area. I view this as a comprehensive guide to garlic provided in a very entertaining fashion. Wish I could find it on DVD!! Information by folks like Alice Water of Chez Panisse in Berkeley showing how to use garlic for cooking a nice pig dish are amazing and make you want to sit down and eat it right there. Other information on uses of garlic that you would never think of such as real garlic salt, for squid recipes, sausages and of course warding off vampires. There are ways to handle garlic for cooking and how to peel it easily as well as how to chop, mince etc for best effect. Highly recommended.

hapuna
Aug 10, 2004
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At the film's premiere at the Film Forum in New York City the ushers walked up and down the aisle with sizzling pans of garlic filling the entire theater with the aroma of garlic.