At the farmers' market, green garlic's appearance is the first glimmer of spring. The long, slender stalk is a doppelganger for a baby leek, with a pale-green shaft and a white base that's streaked ...

Green garlic may have started as an afterthought, but it certainly didn’t remain that way for long. Once offered only by extremely thrifty farmers who were selling off what they’d thinned from their ...

Long before “Twilight” and “True Blood” and the Modern Age of Vampires, garlic was used as a talisman: a panacea against bad spirits in the Middle Ages and against illness during the Crusades. Even ...