by Ari LeVaux Sometime in the mid-1990s, after a lifetime of servitude to the shriveled heads of garlic that I would bring home from the supermarket, I finally declared myself independent. As a cook and a garlic lover, I would no longer…

I missed out on years of enhanced flavor because of foodie prejudice against the dehydrated ingredient. by Ari LeVaux Many foodies look down on garlic powder as a stale, cheap substitute for the real thing. It’s a shortcut for lazy…

by Ari Levaux Across the Northern Hemisphere at about this time, garlic plants are reaching for the sun. Each clove planted last fall has divided and swollen into a bulb of cloves, while the flowers emerge in a circuitous path. Each…