This Bulb's for You

摘要

Although he grows 87 vari- eties of garlic on his tiny farm in Sonoma County, Calif, Chester Aaron would readily concede that nobody needs that many different kinds to eat. He himself can identify no more than eight or 10 garlics by taste, and when he exhibits at food shows or fairs, he puts out just three or four—some Creole Red, for its sweet, earthy flavor; a little Asian Tempest, for gum-scorching heat; a few heads of Spanish Roja, with a robust garlic flavor that fills the mouth and everything else between the toes and the scalp.