Review
"A comprehensive guide to the vegetable, including its history, cultivation and cultural use."
La Cucina Italiana (
La Cucina Italiana )
"A garlic aficionado whose verve and thoroughness are evident in this outstanding work, Meredith cites not only his personal experience but also numerous scientific studies while writing of garlic's natural history, structure, cultivation, taxonomy, diseases, and chemistry... Beautifully illustrated, and one of the most comprehensive garlic books in recent years, this is highly recommended."
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Library Journal (
Library Journal )
“The aroma of garlic nearly wafts from the pages of this delectable book. . . Where this book breaks ground is in the idea of growing garlic ornamentally as well as in its precise information on how to harvest and store this most pungent of bulbs. . . . And the photos are stunning.” (
Seattle Times )
“This is no ordinary book on garlic. It is a literary masterpiece, a reference book, a grower’s bible, a summary of garlic research explained in layman’s terms, and one that is a ‘must’ for any garlic lover’s library.” (
The Garlic News )
“[This] is the most comprehensive and in-depth guide available to what surely should be the next gourmet frontier.”
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Bend Lifestyles & Homes )
“Few books qualify as coffee table books, and botanical manuscripts, and cultural guides, and cooking guides. The Complete Book of Garlic does all these, and more.”
(
Maine Organic Farmer & Gardener )
“Meredith asserts that if your only experience with garlic is the mediocre grocery store variety, you have been missing out.”
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American Gardener )
"Meredith's book admirably expands our view of the world of garlic. It answers many of the mysteries about garlic, provides invaluable practical advice, and certainly celebrates its diversity." (
Gastronomica )
This is a beautifully photographed and illustrated, coffee-table worthy, book for gardeners and those who love to cook and eat garlic. Grow your own! (Molly Day
Muskogee Phoenix )
About the Author
Ted Jordan Meredith has written books on viticulture, enology, wine appreciation, garlic, and bamboo. His
Bamboo for Gardens (Timber Press 2001) was awarded the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries Literature Award and
The New York Times Editor's Choice for Best Books for Gardening, and his
The Complete Book of Garlic: A Guide for Gardeners, Growers, and Serious Cooks (Timber Press 2008) has become the standard reference for garlic enthusiasts.
When a housing development suddenly took away his privacy, Ted became interested in bamboo as a beautiful, rapidly growing, evergreen screen. He quickly became captivated by bamboo in all of its aspects and began to grow, research, and write about bamboo.
A native of Montana, Ted recalls the daring use of fresh garlic in the family kitchen. In later years, as his interest in cooking grew, Ted enthusiastically incorporated garlic into much of his cuisine but initially regarded garlic as a supermarket commodity with little distinction. It was at a farmer's market that he purchased a few heads of a Rocambole garlic, 'Spanish Roja'. Ted realized then that all garlic was not the same, and he never looked back, voraciously exploring a new-found world of hundreds of cultivars in nearly a dozen different horticultural groups.
Ted and his wife garden and grow bamboo at their home in Washington state. In addition to writing and photography, Ted enjoys cooking, gardening, hiking, and music.
