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Speaker 1: From adding a punch of flavor to our food to

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Speaker 1: warding off evil spirits.

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Speaker 2: Garlic is powerful.

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Speaker 1: Today's episode is all about garlic.

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Speaker 3: My name is Evil Longoria and I am My de

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Speaker 3: Gomezrajon and welcome to Hungry for History, a podcast that

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Speaker 3: explores our past and present through food.

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Speaker 1: On every episode, we'll talk about the history of some

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Speaker 1: of our favorite dishes, ingredients, and beverages from our culture.

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Speaker 2: So make yourself at home. Even so, I sent you

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Speaker 2: a voice note because I was in Spain doing searching

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Speaker 2: for Spain. Chinean is an old town from the fifteenth

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Speaker 2: it's a different kind of garlic. It's only grown there.

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Speaker 2: It has like smaller d in this which is clothes.

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Speaker 2: And it was fantastic because that little town that makes

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Speaker 2: all this garlic, and it's a dying breed. Everything is garlic, garlic,

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Speaker 2: I just was in Heaven and there was this farm

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Speaker 2: where Chef Medium Hernandez was harvesting this very special garlic.

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Speaker 1: That's so cool. So I remember you said that this

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Speaker 1: garlic was almost extinct.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's labor intensive. Okay, it still grows in the

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Speaker 2: ground and we picked it. It's like it's purple on

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Speaker 2: But there's this woman that's made it her mission to

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Speaker 2: keep it alive, keep this species alive. I don't know

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Speaker 2: how many garlic species there are. There are hundreds.

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Speaker 1: There's about three hundred different garlic varieties, really, but only

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Speaker 1: most grocery stores here in the US sell like two

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Speaker 1: different kinds. Yeah, so this one that you're talking about,

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Speaker 1: I mean we can't get it here obviously, but does

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Speaker 1: it taste different than the stuff that we're used.

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Speaker 2: To get it? It was pretty I mean it's called

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Speaker 2: Spanish garlic, but it is, yes, the region of Castilla.

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Speaker 1: Okay, this the world capital of garlic.

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Speaker 2: Yes? Is that the world capital of garlic.

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Speaker 1: Of garlic in the central region of Castilla La Mancha

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's actually called Spanish rocha. That's the variety I think. Okay,

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Speaker 2: so then it's a strong pungent flavor. So oh, and

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Speaker 2: the those are easier to peel. Yes, it's a purple garlic.

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Speaker 2: I knew garlic grew in the ground. I didn't know

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Speaker 1: Very versatile, it's easy to grow. I didn't know that

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Speaker 1: So it's been beloved in Spanish cooking, you know, forever,

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Speaker 1: It dates to around seventeen thirty BC Messipotamian region, which

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Speaker 2: That makes sense. Garlic came to Spain from Central Asia.

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Speaker 2: But yes, well they also say in ancient Egypt garlics

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Speaker 2: Uses a lot. Egyptians and Greeks and Romans used it medicinally.

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Speaker 2: Egyptians really loved garlic, and obviously the Greeks. And if

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Speaker 2: liked it all. Like I'm wondering how how much bad

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Speaker 2: And then stink. Who was the first guy in ancient

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Speaker 1: both recommended garlic to clean arteries, prevent stomach disorders, treat

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Speaker 1: basically everything, wow, everything, And it was continued, you know,

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Speaker 1: to be used medicinally throughout the ages. I never really

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Speaker 2: That is so funny. I love garlic so much, you know,

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Speaker 1: I go, I put garlic in everything. You love garlic,

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Speaker 2: He it doesn't like garlic. I put it in everything,

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Speaker 1: On bread like that's one of my favorite ways to

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Speaker 2: Oh my god. Did you know that Americans eat more

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Speaker 2: than two hundred and fifty pounds of garlic a year,

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Speaker 2: and some of it, well, most of it is grown

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Speaker 1: can marrn it to steak by hanging it outside. Why

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Speaker 2: You know, I didn't realize how versatile garlic is because

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Speaker 2: you can use it as a spice or I use

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Speaker 2: it to disease and foods. You can roast it, saute it,

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Speaker 1: You know, I don't like eggstimes.

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Speaker 2: I still love you. You love me, but you love

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Speaker 2: I'm telling you you're gonna love this dish because it's

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Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, what are.

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Speaker 2: We making you know what's funny is I call them

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Speaker 2: Turkish eggs, but they're kind of have Middle Eastern roots,

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Speaker 2: I don't know exactly what it is, but in Mexico

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Speaker 2: it's called Webbelskke's where we've been drinking, guys, where Wolve's

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Speaker 2: gone hok oke exactly, which is like a yogurt garlic

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Speaker 4: Okay, all right, So I want you to what am

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Speaker 4: Yeah, one full full lemon. So this recipe is from

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Speaker 4: your cookbook?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so why this particular recipe, I don't know.

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Speaker 4: They were like, oh, these are Turkish eggs.

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Speaker 2: Or webbles gone Hokka, And I was like, what is hocoka?

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Speaker 2: And they were like, oh, it's just yogurt. So we're

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Speaker 2: gonna do one medium garlic clove. I usually do like two.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, let's make it garlic eatee.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna make it super garlic e So Hocoka is

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Speaker 4: Right, it's like a milk. Yeah, it's actually like a sour.

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Speaker 2: it's different in Mexico. I don't know exactly what it

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Speaker 1: Mexico, but if you if you can't find it, you

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Speaker 1: the hog comes from the now, which means sour. No,

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Speaker 1: it's like a sour yogurt, Like, it's kind of sour, right.

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Speaker 2: Put the lemon zest in the yogurt.

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Speaker 1: I'm a little nervous about the the egg that doesn't

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Speaker 4: Now we're gonna press, okay, press the garlic.

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Speaker 2: This is my favorite garlic press in the world.

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Speaker 4: Really, I don't have a garlic press. I don't own

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Speaker 4: We gotta get my garlic press.

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Speaker 2: This is pampered Chef. My aunt, who taught me how

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Speaker 4: Look how it comes out so beautiful.

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Speaker 2: You can put the whole cloven with the skin and

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Speaker 4: Half a lemon of lemon.

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Speaker 4: Like whatever you want, whatever you lie. God, this garlic

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Speaker 2: Oh God, my lemon doesn't fit in my lemon squeezer,

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Speaker 2: So then we're gonna squeeze the lemon we just zested.

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Speaker 4: It's a big old lemon.

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Speaker 2: I'm only gonna do half.

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Speaker 4: This is like my favorite profile.

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Speaker 1: Yes, a little sour, citrusy salty. This is like my

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Speaker 2: I know you're excited about the frying of the egg,

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Speaker 2: the secret to frying eggs. Spanish olive oil.

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Speaker 4: Oh that's a beautiful bottle.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, and you do a lot. I learned this

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Speaker 4: You made these for Pepa in Spain.

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Speaker 2: Wait before we do that, let's lay the bed of

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Speaker 2: So then we put our little egg on top. Not

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Speaker 4: It's runny. Okay, you don't like it runny, I've never eaten.

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Speaker 2: Now you pour the salsa macha on top of the

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Speaker 1: And then the satsa matcha is like an Asian chili oil.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, salsa macha is Mexican, right do you want

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Speaker 4: That is beautiful. Let's get I'm nervous. Might just have this.

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Speaker 2: But you could have the sour dough with the sauce

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Speaker 4: Isn't it pretty?

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Speaker 2: Garlic?

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Speaker 4: I had a little bit. I don't taste the egg.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't. It's overwhelmed by the garlic. What is

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Speaker 1: So it said, after you slice or dice or pressed

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Speaker 2: We get the properties exactly.

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Speaker 1: And this is also exactly and this is also the

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Speaker 1: enzyme that gives garlic it's odor.

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Speaker 2: It's the odor that's been associated with warding off things

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Speaker 1: And even the earliest bridal bouquets and wreaths include garlic

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Speaker 6: Susto itself for people who don't know. But I feel

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Speaker 6: is it? It's a cultural illness where after a big

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