Right, the Single Clove Garlic is from China, and it is quite unique.
The growing area is called Dali, a beautiful city in west Yunnan
Province, located in south west China near Burma. Every year Yunnan
people ship many tons of such garlic to the world. People in Japan and
Australia especially like it due to its unique fragrant flavour and
high nutrition content. Farmers grow it in high moutain areas with
organic fertilizers only. Some pictures of it can be seen at
http://www.prettygarlic.com/products/singleclove.htm
Its price is higher than regular multi-clove garlic but those people
who buy it simply love it. The mountain area surrounding Dali is very
beautiful, and there are three famous pagodas in that ancient city.
Local people like to use such single clove garlic to cook lake fish.
They steam the fish in a pan, and surrounded by the single clove
garlic...Mmm, it is delicious!

wrote:
>
> Right, the Single Clove Garlic is from China, and it is quite unique.

It's called "elephant ear" garlic, and it's been available
in the U.S. for many years. It's less intense than regular
garlic, so it's not a drop-in replacement.

Mark Thorson wrote:
> wrote:
>> Right, the Single Clove Garlic is from China, and it is quite unique.
>
> It's called "elephant ear" garlic, and it's been available
> in the U.S. for many years. It's less intense than regular
> garlic, so it's not a drop-in replacement.

"Elephant Ear", or simply "Elephant" garlic?
What I've seen in the stores as the latter are bulbs with fewer, much
larger than normal cloves, but not single clove "bulbs".
Is the Single Clove Garlic something else?

Mark Thorson > wrote in :

> wrote:
>>
>> Right, the Single Clove Garlic is from China, and it is quite unique.
>
> It's called "elephant ear" garlic, and it's been available
> in the U.S. for many years. It's less intense than regular
> garlic, so it's not a drop-in replacement.
>


I actually found some French garlic in the supermarket awhile back. All I
had to do was follow my nose!!

The pack was *beautifully* fragrant, I thought it would be overpowering in
cooking, but the flavour/strength was much the same as ordinary garlic.

--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia


Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth --that no evil can
happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Socrates

On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:47:19 -0800, Mark Thorson >
wrote:

wrote:
>>
>> Right, the Single Clove Garlic is from China, and it is quite unique.
>
>It's called "elephant ear" garlic, and it's been available
>in the U.S. for many years. It's less intense than regular
>garlic, so it's not a drop-in replacement.

Please say "we don't want no chinese garlic here".


--
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that
interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

Mae West

Dave Bell > wrote:

> Mark Thorson wrote:
>> wrote:
>>> Right, the Single Clove Garlic is from China, and it is quite unique.
>>
>> It's called "elephant ear" garlic, and it's been available
>> in the U.S. for many years. It's less intense than regular
>> garlic, so it's not a drop-in replacement.
>
> "Elephant Ear", or simply "Elephant" garlic?
> What I've seen in the stores as the latter are bulbs with fewer, much
> larger than normal cloves, but not single clove "bulbs".
> Is the Single Clove Garlic something else?

The single clove garlic is not elephant [ear] garlic.

I have never seen the single clove garlic here in the US except in
pickle mixes imported from Italy. A couple people here have
reported seeing it for sale fresh, but it was pretty expensive.

-sw

"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
...
> Dave Bell > wrote:
>
>> Mark Thorson wrote:
>>> wrote:
>>>> Right, the Single Clove Garlic is from China, and it is quite unique.
>>>
>>> It's called "elephant ear" garlic, and it's been available
>>> in the U.S. for many years. It's less intense than regular
>>> garlic, so it's not a drop-in replacement.
>>
>> "Elephant Ear", or simply "Elephant" garlic?
>> What I've seen in the stores as the latter are bulbs with fewer, much
>> larger than normal cloves, but not single clove "bulbs".
>> Is the Single Clove Garlic something else?
>
> The single clove garlic is not elephant [ear] garlic.
>
> I have never seen the single clove garlic here in the US except in
> pickle mixes imported from Italy. A couple people here have
> reported seeing it for sale fresh, but it was pretty expensive.
>
> -sw

The Elephant garlic I have seen here is huge. One clove is probably 2/3rds
of a standard garlic bulb. However, like you say, they have multiple
cloves. They are also not anywhere near as strong.

Sqwertz wrote:

> The single clove garlic is not elephant [ear] garlic.
>
> I have never seen the single clove garlic here in the US except in
> pickle mixes imported from Italy. A couple people here have
> reported seeing it for sale fresh, but it was pretty expensive.

Okay, this is such a coincidence. When I open the newsgroup,
it will open some random old message. Funny the things you
see, or the people you miss. Like Alan Moorman. Anyway.

So this morning some old message pops up and I think it's
a post to this thread. I don't think koko will will be upset with
me quoting her from the end of January, 2007:

>On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 18:21:51 -0800, Koko wrote:

>>Ran through Trader Joe's today picking up a few things, needed garlic,
>>saw some, grabbed it . When I unpacked it I noticed it was in a little
>>wicker basket, how cool, then I noticed it was not your usual garlic.
>>It is called The Emperors new cloves. One clove per head.

Yes, I'm easily amused. What are the odds.

nancy

On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 09:16:02 -0500, "Nancy Young"
> wrote:

>Sqwertz wrote:
>
>> The single clove garlic is not elephant [ear] garlic.
>>
>> I have never seen the single clove garlic here in the US except in
>> pickle mixes imported from Italy. A couple people here have
>> reported seeing it for sale fresh, but it was pretty expensive.
>
>Okay, this is such a coincidence. When I open the newsgroup,
>it will open some random old message. Funny the things you
>see, or the people you miss. Like Alan Moorman. Anyway.
>
>So this morning some old message pops up and I think it's
>a post to this thread. I don't think koko will will be upset with
>me quoting her from the end of January, 2007:
>
>>On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 18:21:51 -0800, Koko wrote:
>
>>>Ran through Trader Joe's today picking up a few things, needed garlic,
>>>saw some, grabbed it . When I unpacked it I noticed it was in a little
>>>wicker basket, how cool, then I noticed it was not your usual garlic.
>>>It is called The Emperors new cloves. One clove per head.
>
>Yes, I'm easily amused. What are the odds.
>
>nancy

Wow!!! Glad my post was on topic and I used clean language. ;-)
I remember those cloves of garlic and I still have the little basket.
I don't think I've seen them recently, I'll have to keep an eye out
for them.

koko
--

There is no love more sincere than the love of food
George Bernard Shaw
www.kokoscorner.typepad.com
updated 01/03

On Jan 4, 11:44 am, koko > wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 09:16:02 -0500, "Nancy Young"
>
>
>
> > wrote:
> >Sqwertz wrote:
>
> >> The single clove garlic is not elephant [ear] garlic.
>
> >> I have never seen the single clove garlic here in the US except in
> >> pickle mixes imported from Italy. A couple people here have
> >> reported seeing it for sale fresh, but it was pretty expensive.
>
> >Okay, this is such a coincidence. When I open the newsgroup,
> >it will open some random old message. Funny the things you
> >see, or the people you miss. Like Alan Moorman. Anyway.
>
> >So this morning some old message pops up and I think it's
> >a post to this thread. I don't think koko will will be upset with
> >me quoting her from the end of January, 2007:
>
> >>On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 18:21:51 -0800, Koko wrote:
>
> >>>Ran through Trader Joe's today picking up a few things, needed garlic,
> >>>saw some, grabbed it . When I unpacked it I noticed it was in a little
> >>>wicker basket, how cool, then I noticed it was not your usual garlic.
> >>>It is called The Emperors new cloves. One clove per head.
>
> >Yes, I'm easily amused. What are the odds.
>
> >nancy
>
> Wow!!! Glad my post was on topic and I used clean language. ;-)
> I remember those cloves of garlic and I still have the little basket.
> I don't think I've seen them recently, I'll have to keep an eye out
> for them.
>
> koko
> --
>
> There is no love more sincere than the love of food
> George Bernard Shawwww.kokoscorner.typepad.com
> updated 01/03

Just saw this the other day on the foodporn. Rick Bayliss' show,
visiting Jaques Pepin's condo somewhere in Mexico. Got this in the
local market and one of them was more surprized than the other.
Said it wasn't sold in the states.

Good episode - both of them wandering around the market, thinking
aloud for the camera: "I don't really know what I'm going to make. I
sort of have an idea. Hey, these things look pretty good; let's get
some and figure it out back at the house".

Screw recipies - this is cookin'.

bulka

> On Jan 4, 11:44 am, koko > wrote:
>> On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 09:16:02 -0500, "Nancy Young"
>> > wrote:

>>> So this morning some old message pops up and I think it's
>>> a post to this thread. I don't think koko will will be upset with
>>> me quoting her from the end of January, 2007:
>>
>>>> On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 18:21:51 -0800, Koko wrote:
>>
>>>>> Ran through Trader Joe's today picking up a few things, needed
>>>>> garlic, saw some, grabbed it . When I unpacked it I noticed it
>>>>> was in a little wicker basket, how cool, then I noticed it was
>>>>> not your usual garlic. It is called The Emperors new cloves. One
>>>>> clove per head.

>> Wow!!! Glad my post was on topic and I used clean language. ;-)

I know! I caught you in a rare moment of being civil and amusing.
Crazy, huh? (laugh)

>> I remember those cloves of garlic and I still have the little basket.
>> I don't think I've seen them recently, I'll have to keep an eye out
>> for them.

You were ahead of your time, talking about this single clove
garlic all the way back in 2007.

nancy