This is such a beautiful in-depth approach to my personal favorite, garlic. The recipes are simple but really impactful and there are a few that I can't wait to give a try. This is a really great kitchen companion for the times you want to learn more than you thought you'd want to! So good! And the photography is gorgeous.

I freaking loved this book! I learned so much about garlic and the recipes were fabulous. I will definitely gift this book to other garlic lovers as soon as it is published and available in Germany!

This book is a wonderful combination of great photography and all you could ever want to know about garlic. A must for any garlic fan, and a great gift for someone who enjoys their garlic. This has everything from how to grow it, through descriptions of the many varieties to what to cook with it and a ton of other ways to use it and all its parts. The floral decorations were a particular eye opener to me as well as the number of varieties of garlic that you can buy and grow. Fascinating and highly recommended.

I found this book very interesting and full of useful information. Absolutely beautiful photos are additional plus. Few nice cooking recipes (I will check at least few of them) and other creations with garlic bulbs, so nice. Sensible tips for people who decide to have their try with growing garlic. I have to say I like author's writing style, easy to follow. Overall very nice book.

The Garlic Companion focuses on the different ways you can cook, grow, and store garlic. The cookbook starts with a little history and knowledge about garlic. The pictures in this book are beautiful and the food looks so good!

The sections are
KNOW AND LOVE the wonderful world of garlic
COOK AND EAT recipes celebrating garlicky goodness
MAKE AND CELEBRATE crafts for garlic gathering
PLANT AND GROW cultivate your own garlic crop
HARVEST AND STORE picking and preserving garlic

Each recipe has a picture, information on the recipe, serving size, ingredients, and directions. The recipes are straightforward and has a really nice flow.

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

The photography in this book is stunning. Every page is like a mini garlic celebration, making you appreciate this humble ingredient on a whole new level. The recipes are where this book really shines. There are some classic garlic dishes, but then it throws in black garlic recipes which I'm looking forward to trying. There are sections on garlic crafts (yes, garlic crafts!), plus solid advice on growing your own garlic, storing it properly, and preserving it. Definitely one for the cookbook bookshelf!

A brilliant book if you’re curious about garlic planting/harvesting. There are some silly sections (throwing a garlic themed party), but overall the book is very informative.

Thank you to NetGalley and the Publisher for giving me this eArc to review.

This is a great book all about garlic that shows the difference between softneck and hardneck and other species. There are a lot of recipes to choose from that are easily laid out which means that they are very easy to follow. I would recommend this for any garlic lover.

I received a free ebook copy from NetGalley in exchange for a fair review.

The Garlic Companion is an interesting cookbook/history of garlic in agriculture and food. There’s lots of unique recipes and uses for garlic that I definitely wouldn’t have thought of, and seeing how garlic has been used is quite cool. I honestly didn’t know that there were that many varieties of garlic! Everyone should have a good garlic confit in their repertoire, and there are many more ideas. Now garlic & honey sorbet? Nope, wouldn’t have come up with that one on my own. But hey, why not? I’ll try most things once! Definitely worth looking at, if you’d like to broaden your culinary horizons with a seemingly common ingredient!

Are you a vampire?
-Yes? -> Then this book is NOT for you.
-No? -> Do you love garlic?
---------Yes! -> This book is for you!
---------No! -> This book is not for you!
Me? I LOVE garlic. When a recipe calls for garlic or garlic powder, I put in extra. Sometimes double, but really I don't know because I do the "stop when your ancestors tell you its enough" thing.
This book is set up into 5 different sections and I'm going to give you a brief overview because this is not just a cookbook, it's so much more!
♥ Section 1: History of garlic in medicine, cuisine, media. Understanding the different species/types of garlic, ex: hard neck & soft neck. These species have a different flavor profile (?) I'm not a professional chef so I don't know if that's the right phrasing but they each bring a different taste to a dish. (Side note I would LOVE to go to the garlic festival!)
♥ Section 2: Recipes! There's seasonal recipes and peeling tips. I love the garlic bread recipe (a classic) and I'm excited to try the black garlic chocolate and the garlic scape salsa!
♥ Section 3: Crafts: use garlic to decorate the dinner table, place settings, your home (keep vampires out), or use it to make a bouquet or a flower/garlic crown.
♥ Section 4: Grow your own. Simply stated, learn how to grown your own garlic!
♥ Section 5: Storing and preserving. Pretty self explanatory here!
I absolutely love how in depth this book goes on garlic. Which it absolutely should with the title "The Garlic Companion" and honestly it did not disappoint. This truly is a garlic lover's best friend!

Thank you to NetGalley and Storey Publishing for the ARC! ♥

Most of us love garlic. I grew up without it - until my mother had an emergency and a neighbor fed us kids aglio olio for lunch. I was crazy about it. So I became a garlic lover. I planted garlic in my flower beds last fall in an attempt to keep rabbits out. Maybe it will work, maybe it won't, but I'll have lots of garlic soon.

First I want to note that the book is filled with beautiful and helpful photographs.

This book is interesting, as well as beautiful and useful. It starts with a section on growing garlic, historical garlic, and types of garlic. The author also covers where to find fresh garlic, and garlic festivals. And then what I was most interested in - garlic recipes! There are recipes for fresh garlic, roasted garlic, garlic scapes, black garlic, and garlic powder. There are even suggestions on how to decorate with garlic, instructions for garlic braiding, and other ideas.

Lastly, there are instructions on how to plant and harvest garlic. I've never done it before so I learned some interesting tips. I learned how to harvest, dry and store. This was a very useful book for me. I expect that it will be helpful and interesting to many people - even if you don't plan to grow your own.

I think there's everything you need to know and more about garlic in this book!
My favourite part are the recipes and they sound super yummy and not complicated at all, which I love!
The folklore, medicine and history part was quite interesting as well since I learned something new about it!
The only thing that wasn't my cup of tea were the crafts. There are nice little ideas but not really my style, so that's a very personal opinion!

As someone who has always considered their selves a "garlic girl" - this book was a no brainer to request.
I, not only, learned so much, but I'm even more excited to implement some of these theories, tips, and tricks into growing my own garlic this upcoming fall season.

The book starts out with different topics like garlic in health & garlic in folklore which immediately captured my attention. Learning the deeper discovery, origins, and folklore of certain herbs and vegetables have rapidly become one of my true passions in life. From there, we are taught about traditionally medicine properties behind the magic of garlic, which has come in handy during our quest to become homesteaders.

Learning the differences between soft and hard neck was something I didn't know. Boy am I glad I learned all of this before our journey to grow our own crops.

Overall, this book was a five star for me. I don't normally rank "non fiction" books because you're learning and obtaining someone's knowledge - how can you put a rank on someone else's experiences and way of teaching? I will be purchasing this as a coffee table book in hopes that our house guests can also get something out of reading this book. Lastly, very excited and grateful to try out some of the recipes.

The book shares the history, plus more, about garlic. There are gorgeous pics, random tips and notes, recipes, gardening information including making a pest repellent with garlic, and some crafting ideas.

There are five chapters:
Know and Love the Wonderful World of Garlic
Cook and Eat Recipes Celebrating Garlicky Goodness
Make and Celebrate Crafts for Garlic Gatherings
Plant and Grow Cultivate Your Own Garlic Crop
Harvest and Store Picking and Preserving Garlic

Some of the recipes include Garlic Confit Flat Bread Pizza, Garlic Scape Pesto, and Grandma’s Garlic Cabbage Slaw. Each recipe includes a blurb about the dish, serving size, ingredients, and instructions.

I like to test a recipe from cookbooks I’m reviewing and I chose one that is familiar to most people yet simple and quite delicious…..Garlic Confit. Simple and on hand ingredients, instructions were clear and easy to follow, and the dish was awesome. I never even had a chance to store it in the fridge as my family ate it up on some homemade bread. I highly recommend having it warm, both the garlic confit and the bread.

My review is voluntary and all comments and opinions are my own.

Garlic is a tasty ingredient we all love, and this book showcases its divine qualities with its stunning visuals. It provides comprehensive information on garlic, including its different types, how to plant, grow, and harvest it, and how it can be used as a medicine to improve heart health. The Garlic Companion is filled with interesting facts about this incredible root vegetable that you will find fascinating.

As the daughter to a garlic lover, I love everything garlic. The Garlic Companion by Kristin Graves Is well written with So much Information on different garlic types and the recipes are spectacular. I'll have to buy this when it gets published because my father will love this!

There are two staples that every kitchen should have - an onion and garlic. You can do wonders with either!

This book provides ton of different recipes that all. involve garlic. I liked that the main focus wasn't just the taste, but how to incorporate your recipes using it, to make it even better. There are lots of things to try out for both a beginner and an experienced cook. Thankful to have been able to receive this. I love a well thought out cookbook!

I thought this was primarily a cook book, as "recipes" is the first thing listed in the subheading. However, that is not the case. I wasn't thrilled with most of the recipes. Most used garlic as a companion to the main part of the recipe. Garlic is a super common aromatic and seasoning. So I was disappointed to see so many recipes where garlic clearly wasn't the focal point of that dish. Several of the recipes were those that have been seen time and time again. However, I did really enjoy the recipe sections for garlic scape and black garlic as I feel this isn't something that has been done so many times before.

Ultimately though, I don't think this book is very accessible for most people. Specifically and in my opinion, there's many elements that makes it a bit out of touch for a common reader. At one point, the author mentions that water-front property is best to have in order to grow garlic. There's a small section about raised bed gardening, but the majority of garlic growing information centers on it being a larger scale production. Maybe I am just not from the right area of the US... If you're in the right climate for growing garlic, and the majority of your community has a yard or farming land, this book may do really well within your community!

If it's not a cookbook, I wish the author would've shared more information about the history of garlic. The author did have a bit of this but it was so brief. I do think doing more research on this and sharing it within the book would really increase the type of audiences it could be used by.

I think this would make a decent coffee table book or a nice white elephant gift.

As a lover of garlic, this book was perfect for me.

The recipes were great and very imaginative, I loved the pictures! They were so inspiring.

Many thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for gifting me this arc in exchange for an honest, unbiased review.

As a garlic girl, I have to admit I did not know there were so many different types of garlic.

There were some fun ways in here to use garlic, including new butters I want to try. I was almost disappointed that the recipes were so simply, but I think it really helped in highlighting garlic as the star in every recipe picked.

A whole section for black garlic!! I knew so little of her, but not anymore

They were right, "garlic tends to be one of those ingredients that people measure with their hearts."