“I would have rather you’d have to garlic stunk”, to the Emperor Vespasian to have a perfumed officer said. The spice plant was the Pesto of the Roman antiquity, and belonged to the days of the legionaries. They carried on their forced marches of thirty pounds of Luggage, and spent 10’000 calories a day (the word Burnout was invented only in 1974). The soldiers were prone to was for bloody feet and injuries of the coarser kind. The Plant is used as anti-inflammatory, and became synonymous with the soldiers being.
In the middle ages was grown garlic in monasteries and in the case of lung inflammation recommended. During the plague it was believed, even, you could fight it with garlic, the disease. The plague was over, like all pandemics, the remained but to believe.
bloodsucker with garlic-phobia
in 1733, wrote Johann Christoph harenberg his “Christian thought about the vampires,” and thus laid the Foundation stone for the bat, the neurotic blood settled down soap with garlic-phobia in literature and Film.
Some studies claim that garlic is effective in the case of lung infections, because it is eliminated in the tuber contained Oils via the lungs. There is a demonstrable effect, you’d have to eat every day as a Kilo of garlic, then it would be fat even a positive influence on the blood. But rather a negative on the married life.
prisoners of peel in the mouth
there are also Rumors you hear, the BAG check the free distribution of garlic on the enforcement of Social Distancing. China could deliver. With yearly 21 tons, they cover 80 percent of global consumption. For the US market, the garlic is to peel in places of detention, pre -. The juice gets under the nails and burning the skin. Therefore, many forced workers to take the tubers in the mouth, peel it with the teeth and they spit it out again.
Today, the spice and medicinal plant is considered to be Viagra of the poor man. It is recommended that you take in advance a common aperitif with Moretum. The garlic recipe has been left to us by Apicius, the Paul Bocuse of the Roman antiquity. Unfortunately, without the information of the required amount of feta cheese, Celery leaves and cilantro. Maybe you use the breaks in a home office, make it out of the tinkering.
Claude Cueni (64) is a writer and lives in Basel. He writes every second Friday of the VIEWS. 20. July, Verlag Nagel & Kimche, his novel “Genesis 2.0 – pandemic out of the ice”.
