Most of us love garlic. I grew up without it - until my mother had an emergency and a neighbor fed us kids aglio olio for lunch. I was crazy about it. So I became a garlic lover. I planted garlic in my flower beds last fall in an attempt to keep rabbits out. Maybe it will work, maybe it won't, but I'll have lots of garlic soon.

First I want to note that the book is filled with beautiful and helpful photographs.

This book is interesting, as well as beautiful and useful. It starts with a section on growing garlic, historical garlic, and types of garlic. The author also covers where to find fresh garlic, and garlic festivals. And then what I was most interested in - garlic recipes! There are recipes for fresh garlic, roasted garlic, garlic scapes, black garlic, and garlic powder. There are even suggestions on how to decorate with garlic, instructions for garlic braiding, and other ideas.

Lastly, there are instructions on how to plant and harvest garlic. I've never done it before so I learned some interesting tips. I learned how to harvest, dry and store. This was a very useful book for me. I expect that it will be helpful and interesting to many people - even if you don't plan to grow your own.

I think there's everything you need to know and more about garlic in this book!
My favourite part are the recipes and they sound super yummy and not complicated at all, which I love!
The folklore, medicine and history part was quite interesting as well since I learned something new about it!
The only thing that wasn't my cup of tea were the crafts. There are nice little ideas but not really my style, so that's a very personal opinion!

As someone who has always considered their selves a "garlic girl" - this book was a no brainer to request.
I, not only, learned so much, but I'm even more excited to implement some of these theories, tips, and tricks into growing my own garlic this upcoming fall season.

The book starts out with different topics like garlic in health & garlic in folklore which immediately captured my attention. Learning the deeper discovery, origins, and folklore of certain herbs and vegetables have rapidly become one of my true passions in life. From there, we are taught about traditionally medicine properties behind the magic of garlic, which has come in handy during our quest to become homesteaders.

Learning the differences between soft and hard neck was something I didn't know. Boy am I glad I learned all of this before our journey to grow our own crops.

Overall, this book was a five star for me. I don't normally rank "non fiction" books because you're learning and obtaining someone's knowledge - how can you put a rank on someone else's experiences and way of teaching? I will be purchasing this as a coffee table book in hopes that our house guests can also get something out of reading this book. Lastly, very excited and grateful to try out some of the recipes.

The book shares the history, plus more, about garlic. There are gorgeous pics, random tips and notes, recipes, gardening information including making a pest repellent with garlic, and some crafting ideas.

There are five chapters:
Know and Love the Wonderful World of Garlic
Cook and Eat Recipes Celebrating Garlicky Goodness
Make and Celebrate Crafts for Garlic Gatherings
Plant and Grow Cultivate Your Own Garlic Crop
Harvest and Store Picking and Preserving Garlic

Some of the recipes include Garlic Confit Flat Bread Pizza, Garlic Scape Pesto, and Grandma’s Garlic Cabbage Slaw. Each recipe includes a blurb about the dish, serving size, ingredients, and instructions.

I like to test a recipe from cookbooks I’m reviewing and I chose one that is familiar to most people yet simple and quite delicious…..Garlic Confit. Simple and on hand ingredients, instructions were clear and easy to follow, and the dish was awesome. I never even had a chance to store it in the fridge as my family ate it up on some homemade bread. I highly recommend having it warm, both the garlic confit and the bread.

My review is voluntary and all comments and opinions are my own.

Garlic is a tasty ingredient we all love, and this book showcases its divine qualities with its stunning visuals. It provides comprehensive information on garlic, including its different types, how to plant, grow, and harvest it, and how it can be used as a medicine to improve heart health. The Garlic Companion is filled with interesting facts about this incredible root vegetable that you will find fascinating.

As the daughter to a garlic lover, I love everything garlic. The Garlic Companion by Kristin Graves Is well written with So much Information on different garlic types and the recipes are spectacular. I'll have to buy this when it gets published because my father will love this!

There are two staples that every kitchen should have - an onion and garlic. You can do wonders with either!

This book provides ton of different recipes that all. involve garlic. I liked that the main focus wasn't just the taste, but how to incorporate your recipes using it, to make it even better. There are lots of things to try out for both a beginner and an experienced cook. Thankful to have been able to receive this. I love a well thought out cookbook!

I thought this was primarily a cook book, as "recipes" is the first thing listed in the subheading. However, that is not the case. I wasn't thrilled with most of the recipes. Most used garlic as a companion to the main part of the recipe. Garlic is a super common aromatic and seasoning. So I was disappointed to see so many recipes where garlic clearly wasn't the focal point of that dish. Several of the recipes were those that have been seen time and time again. However, I did really enjoy the recipe sections for garlic scape and black garlic as I feel this isn't something that has been done so many times before.

Ultimately though, I don't think this book is very accessible for most people. Specifically and in my opinion, there's many elements that makes it a bit out of touch for a common reader. At one point, the author mentions that water-front property is best to have in order to grow garlic. There's a small section about raised bed gardening, but the majority of garlic growing information centers on it being a larger scale production. Maybe I am just not from the right area of the US... If you're in the right climate for growing garlic, and the majority of your community has a yard or farming land, this book may do really well within your community!

If it's not a cookbook, I wish the author would've shared more information about the history of garlic. The author did have a bit of this but it was so brief. I do think doing more research on this and sharing it within the book would really increase the type of audiences it could be used by.

I think this would make a decent coffee table book or a nice white elephant gift.

As a lover of garlic, this book was perfect for me.

The recipes were great and very imaginative, I loved the pictures! They were so inspiring.

Many thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for gifting me this arc in exchange for an honest, unbiased review.

As a garlic girl, I have to admit I did not know there were so many different types of garlic.

There were some fun ways in here to use garlic, including new butters I want to try. I was almost disappointed that the recipes were so simply, but I think it really helped in highlighting garlic as the star in every recipe picked.

A whole section for black garlic!! I knew so little of her, but not anymore

They were right, "garlic tends to be one of those ingredients that people measure with their hearts."

I enjoyed this book. I learned about the types of garlic as well as the history of it. I liked that there were recipes and crafts. The authoralso includes sections about how to grow it. I loved the pictures included.

Beautiful pictures, lots of great information, a handful of recipes, everything you want to know about garlic, well almost everything. While there are lots of recipes for using black garlic, I was disappointed that the book didn't explain how to ferment the garlic into black garlic. That would have made this book perfect. What I do love though, is that there is a way to use the whole garlic plant, and not just the bulb.

Who knew you could use garlic in so many varied ways?!
What I appreciate most from this book is that there's a whole chapter devoted to black garlic! I've always wanted to explore using black garlic but I've been too cowardly to do so, now I've got so many ideas.

I enjoy the fact the recipes are fully formed and of good quality in their own right, working in harmony with the garlic, not just having the garlic 'shoehorned-in' so to speak.

I don't typically review cooking books, but I loved garlic so much I had to !
This is more than a cooking book, it took me on a whole garlicy journey. It includes a short history of garlics, an overview of garlic varieties, tips on how to use it best for health benefits, crafts, tips on growing, harvesting and storing garlic.

And of course delicious recipes ! I was pleasantly surprised to discover the many ways garlic can be eaten : salty or sweet, scales and flowers, black and white. I found the garlic scape recipes the most appetising, and Im very curious to try the black garlic banana bread.

The pictures that accompany the text are beautiful, quite a lot of them made me very hungry.

I cannot wait for the summer, so I can try the barbecued roasted garlic recipe. I'll be sure to post pictures of what I cook on instagram !

If you're a garlic lover like me, this book s for you. It has everything, and I mean everything related to garlic. You can learn about the different varieties of garlic, how to grow them, various recipes with garlic being the main flavour, even the reason as to why they ward off vampires (or thought to be), everything about garlic is in this book. I loved the way it was presented. I learned so much from this book. I didn't even know black garlic existed, or that you could use the scape of garlic for cooking, or that garlic could be used for flower arragements. I also loved images and the verall appearance of the book. I will be trying a few of the recipes, especially the desserts! This was truly an eye opener and righfully named as the garlic companion.

Who knew you could do so much with garlic? I am a big fan of garlic - a root vegetable as I learned in this book - but I'm limited to the uses I'm familiar with: roasted on artisan toast, smashed and added to olive oil for pasta salad, etc. It never occurred to me to use [black] garlic in banana bread or in savory shortbread cookies. Additionally, there is great information about varieties of garlic, history of garlic, and even crafts using garlic. My one criticism is that for all the black garlic recipes - and they look amazing - there is no mention of where to buy it or how to make it.

(I was kindly provided an advanced readers copy of this book by NetGalley.)

Wonderful single subject book. Had no idea that Alberta’s climate would support growing garlic.

Many nice recipes, photography is good and excellent information on how to grow your own. Coincidentally I have just made some toum.

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC.

This is an excellent book for a target audience - those who grow garlic, love garlic, or find themselves in excess of garlic. The recipes are clear and with a wide variety of flavors and cuisines. The photos are appetizing.

I really enjoyed this book, it’s filled with some excellent ideas for both cooking with garlic but cultivating it and learning what other benefits it can be used for.

It also highlights different types of garlics and the different flavours which they possess

A big thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review

Will I use this in my curriculum and recommend it to students? Yes!!! A resounding yes! The Garlic Companion by Kristin Graves is a treasure, a keepsake, and a garlic bible.

This book has it all and more including a photo of Kristin's 20 feet by 100 feet garlic wall! :) As a garlic collector and farmer such as I am happy to tell you that this book talks about varieties one might not have heard of and especially digs deeper than any book on garlic that I have read.

I am enamored with this book because it goes into folklore, benefits, crafts recipes, preservation techniques, varieties, how to grow garlic, pickling, preserving, and even touching on The Gilroy Garlic Festival which is on the central coast of California which I grew up with garlic, smelling the fields and going to the Gilroy Garlic Festival every year. Gilroy is often called the garlic capital of the world and it does produce a tremendous amount of garlic but where this book grabs my heart is Kristin's immense love of garlic and how it enriches our life is transforms into every beautiful page. The photographs are rich, and luscious and evoke the pure organic nature of cultivating heirlooms and giving the proper honor with beautiful photos.

I would like to thank NetGalley and the publisher Storey Publishing for the opportunity to read the most spectacular book The Garlic Companion by Kristin Graves.