[quote="drdawg"] If you use "Elephant" garlic, that is not even a garlic. It is of the onion family and the leek genus. Some people like it because of its mild taste, so I guess "real" garlic is not for everyone.[quote="drdawg"]
Thank you for clearing up that mystery! I remember better garlic from my younger days... then for awhile, all I could find in the supermarket was this tasteless "elephant" stuff. I've moved since then and I shop in a serious produce neighborhood now, where garlic is garlic again. I haven't really grown my own garlic yet - less urgent now with the better produce markets.
Now can anybody tell me why the brie of today tastes more like any old bland white cheese instead of like the sharp, aged brie of the 80s?
