garlic

Everyday

A plant like a small onion with a strong smell and taste, used to flavour food; its bulb splits into parts called cloves. tree →

In the lessons

In cooking and everyday life, garlic flavours pasta, bread and many dishes. In science, garlic is a bulb that grows underground, like an onion. In stories and myths, garlic keeps vampires away. Phrases: «a clove of garlic», «garlic bread», «crush garlic».

Examples

• Dad chopped two cloves of garlic for the sauce. tree →
• I love garlic bread. tree →
• Garlic has a very strong smell. tree →
• We planted garlic cloves in the garden. tree →
• In old stories, garlic keeps vampires away. tree →
• Her breath smelled of garlic after dinner. tree →
• Garlic is bad for dogs, so don't feed it to them. tree →

Note

Uncountable: «some garlic», «a clove of garlic», «a bulb (head) of garlic» — not «a garlic». Garlic and onion are toxic to dogs and cats. Vampires are not real.

In Jewish tradition

In the Torah it is one of the Egyptian foods the Israelites complained they missed in the desert.

Interpretation. Tradition sees the complaint as ungrateful, longing for slave-food over freedom and manna.

Examples

• We remember the fish, which we were wont to eat in Egypt for nought; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic; (Torah NUM.11.5, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

Uncountable: «some garlic», «a clove of garlic», «a bulb (head) of garlic» — not «a garlic». Garlic and onion are toxic to dogs and cats. Vampires are not real.