Having one of the world's largest garlic crops, Gilroy, California is known as the 「garlic capital of the world」. On a hot summer day, a pungent odor rises from this farming town which can be smelled miles away. All you have to do is roll down the window of your car and you know you're in Gilroy.
由於擁有世界上最大的大蒜產量之一,加利福尼亞州的吉爾羅伊是有名的「世界大蒜之都」。在炎熱的夏天,一股鼻的味道從這個農業城鎮散發出來,數英裡之外就聞得到。你所必須做的就是搖下車窗, 那麼你就知道你是在吉爾羅伊了。
Believing that garlic helps the body fight many forms of diseases, people add garlic to their cooking in many parts of the world. Moreover, it's popularly used as the poor man's cure-all. During the First World War it was used as an antiseptic. And in the Second World War it was known as"Russian penicillin". Nowadays, thinking that it kills bacteria, some people
eat raw garlic as if it were candy.
因為相信大蒜會幫人體抵抗許多疾病,世界上許多地方的人在烹調的時候會添加大蒜。此外,大蒜還被廣泛地用作窮人的萬靈丹。在第一次世界大戰期間,它被用來當作消毒劑而在二次大戰期間它以「俄國人的盤尼西林」而聞名。如今有些人認為它會殺菌,而生吃大蒜就像它是糖果一樣。