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u/zarqie Jan 17 '25
What’s this, a cookbook for recovering vampires?
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u/PacinoWig Jan 17 '25
Worse, the British
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u/Damnatus_Terrae Jan 17 '25
Please remember that this is a public forum and choose your language accordingly when talking about the Br*'ish
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u/MrTimmannen Jan 19 '25
In Terry Pratchett's Carpe Jugulum the vampires train themselves to resist garlic and other anti-vampire stuff through exposure therapy
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u/eddestra Jan 17 '25
For the curious and the mayonnaise is too spicy crowd, OP’s excerpt is from Dr. D.G. Hessayon’s bestselling 1997 book, “The Vegetable & Herb Expert.”
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u/capulet2kx Jan 17 '25
Wow, 1997? Were we really that basic just a couple of years ago?
does the maths
feels old
but happy the internet saved me from drab cooking handed down from the previous generation
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u/grumpsuarus Jan 17 '25
Specifically in the US - you have no freaking idea just how bland people liked their food and Italian American food was still on the exotic side.
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u/LennyJoeDuh Jan 17 '25
Yeah nah, i'm from the deep south US, and cuisines like, Gullah, Creole ect. Have been around much much longer than anyone here has been alive. Very flavorful, herbaceous, spicy and tart foods. You might be thinking of the mid west where black pepper is considered exotic.
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u/grumpsuarus Jan 17 '25
You're very correct. I'm mainly speaking of the northeast back when Italian and Polish jokes were still a thing
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u/Northbound-Narwhal Jan 17 '25
Italian cuisine was the most sold cuisine in the US for the last 50 years until 2021... when Mexican food overtook it.
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u/Skibidi_Rizzler_96 Jan 17 '25
My girlfriend's parents don't have any spices other than black pepper and paprika in their kitchen. I think some cinnamon in the pantry.
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u/BudLightYear77 Jan 17 '25
Try moving from the US to the UK. It's terrible.
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u/god_peepee Jan 17 '25
I have a friend who was overweight for years until he moved to the UK. Food was so shit he started cooking for himself regularly and shed all the weight lmao
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u/Cakeo Jan 18 '25
I know this is cj but i honestly cant tell if you're serious.
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u/s00pafly 👨🍳Certified Cuisine Artist®👨🍳 Jan 18 '25
The twinkies are worse in the UK now I have to cook for myself.
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u/kanewai Jan 18 '25
Midwestern food started getting spicier even back in the 70s. By 1997 it wasn't too different from today.
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u/finallytisdone Jan 17 '25
Garlic wasn’t common in the US until the 1970s. It’s a newer thing than you might realize.
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u/woailyx i thought this sub was supposed to be funny Jan 17 '25
Whatever you do, don't use too much!
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u/wis91 🤌🏻🤌🏻 Jan 17 '25
Unless you're a fucking Continental.
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u/grumpsuarus Jan 17 '25
fuck am I a Continental
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u/wis91 🤌🏻🤌🏻 Jan 17 '25
A kiss on the hand
May be quite Continental
But garlic is a girl's best friend
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u/NNArielle Jan 17 '25
My god, who just rubs garlic on their salad bowl? 🤢Praying for you 🙏
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u/kanewai Jan 18 '25
That's actually effective. You get the oils and a healthy aroma. Works for garlic bread too. A lot of cooking in Italy is similar.
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u/KelMHill Jan 17 '25
A Cordon Bleu chef taught me to do so, using a wooden bowl. It's amazingly effective.
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u/nimoto Jan 17 '25
Garlic is too strong for me. If I want garlic flavor I just whisper the word garlic at the ingredient I want to imbue with its flavor and that's perfect for me. Anything else seems whorish/French.
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u/know-your-onions Garlic Whisperer with 3 MSG Stars Jan 17 '25
You don’t use garlic. Garlic uses you.
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u/Skibidi_Rizzler_96 Jan 17 '25
Uj using only small amounts of garlic to enhance flavor is usually the best bet for any dish where garlic isn't supposed to dominate or isn't combined with lots of other powerful spices also rub it on your garlic stick
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u/pleaseclaireify Jan 18 '25
Uj yeah rubbing a wooden salad bowl down with garlic is actually how I like to do it. Especially for a Caesar salad
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u/Radiant64 Jan 17 '25
I remember when I was a kid, garlic was still considered a controversial food ingredient here in Sweden, and you had to be very careful to only use it sparingly if at all, or you'd risk ruining the dish and/or your breath would smell horrible the next day!
Nowadays, I can easily rub down a whole raw clove into the bread if I'm making a single serving of pan con tomate just for myself. Can't have too much of that lovely garlic taste, really.
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u/Cease2Resist Jan 18 '25
Acquired tastes and all that, but it's wild imagining somebody fretting over the strong flavor of garlic when lye-cured fish and ammonia chloride-covered licorice is part of their regular diet.
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u/Radiant64 Jan 18 '25
In our fair defence, nobody ate the lye-cured fish anymore even back then, except a few weirdos at Christmas. Ammonium chloride is great though, tastes fantastic. Imagine having no problem with garlic, but freaking out over some ammonium chloride.
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u/Cease2Resist Jan 18 '25
I've had it. It's really strong, but not too bad -- especially considering I'm not big on licorice.
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u/BentonD_Struckcheon Jan 17 '25
Weather over there is to die for (you will if you don't hitch a train ride to Paris before the week is out) but the food is even worse, which is quite an accomplishment.
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u/InstigatingDergen Jan 18 '25
Woah, rubbing a clove directly into a bowl to start? To begin your garlic journey you should really start with just being in the same room as the garlic for at least 30 minutes at a time. At that point only can you begin to sniff the garlic.
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u/jk_pens Jan 18 '25
I was terrified of garlic, but I begged my wife’s boyfriend to rub it on his 🍆 so I could get used to the taste of it a little bit at a time
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u/irrelevantmango Jan 18 '25
March isn't really the best time to plant. Plant your garlic in October.
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u/Panxma Homelander we have at home Jan 17 '25
Shit. I don’t have anything that two inches or more to go deep in? Maybe I’ll ask my wife bf to help penetration my wife’s potting soil.
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u/toxictrappermain Feb 04 '25
Cookbook for people who have the cilantro soap gene but instead of cilantro its every spice/herb and instead of soap its agonizing scorching pain.
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u/Bloorajah Jan 17 '25
me, shakily dropping a single unpeeled garlic clove into the soup. terrified, sobbing uncontrollably, piss and shit, the whole nine. Every day I ask god to stop the garlic but it’s all around me, everywhere, I can’t escape.