Do you like garlic?

6 Minute English

BBC

Language Learning, Education

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

It makes our food tasty and our breath smelly, but what are some of the other uses of garlic...? Apart from warding off vampires, of course! Neil and Beth discuss this and teach you some new vocabulary.

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0:32.6	Six-minute English from BBC learningenglish.com.
0:39.4	Hello, this is Six Minute English from BBC Learning English. I'm Neil.
0:44.1	And I'm Beth. It smells delicious, sizzling in oil, and it's great for keeping vampires away.
0:51.5	But don't eat it on a first date. I'm talking, of course, about garlic.
0:57.3	Neil, do you like garlic?
0:58.8	Oh, yes, I love garlic.
1:00.7	I had a very garlicky meal last night.
1:03.5	Mmm, I know I can smell it from here.
1:06.8	Here is Jason Chan, an Australian chef who specialises in Asian cuisine and Paul Eric Jensen, a Danish chef living in France, talking about their love of garlic to BBC World Service programme, The Food Chain.
1:22.6	I love garlic because it's a versatile ingredient that can be used for cooking and offers various health benefits.
1:29.9	We use it a lot. So from stocks to soups and in vegetable dishes, meat dishes, there's very certain a clove of garlic in somewhere.
1:39.1	Yeah, it's unimaginable, not using garlic.
1:41.9	Jason loves garlic because it's versatile,
1:44.9	meaning it can be used in many different ways.
1:47.8	And Paul thinks cooking without garlic is unimaginable,
1:51.3	meaning it's difficult to imagine because it would be so bad.
1:55.3	Love garlic or hate it?
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