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'The culinary use of garlic is age-long; it is recorded as being part of the Egyptian pyramid-builders' rations...Garlic is used extensively in cooking in southern Europe, Turkey, Egypt, India' and a small kitchen in Bradley Stoke.

(Quotes taken from Chamber's Encyclopaedia [1973] which I rescued from a library skip).

I didn't know that about the pyramids either!