Garlic: Yes, Garlic
Garlic: Yes, Garlic Originally drafted August 5, 2018; refined January 19-20, 2019 The garlic plant, or Allium sativum, has a history of human consumption dating back as far as we've kept records. Our name for garlic stems from the Old English word garleac, which translates to "spear leek." Since the dawn of time, humans have enjoyed garlic for its flavor, regarded it with mystery, and noticed its medicinal qualities, a traditional anecdote confirmed by modern medicine in the relatively recent past. Probably originating somewhere in Siberia or Central Asia, Egyptians regularly ingested the plant as far back as the 4th millennium BCE. All classes of people enjoyed the plant: workers ate it to boost strength and endurance, as they believed it did at the time; the Codex Ebers , an ancient medical document, prescribed it for insect infestation, circulatory problems, and unusual growths; even the pharaohs found it an important crop, seeing as Kin...