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Hello and welcome to the food chain from the BBC World Service. I'm Ramella Dasgupta. On today's program,

we're talking myths. There's an Armenian vampire that goes for people's feet, so campers in

Armenia will rub garlic on their feet. Medicines. But it essentially gives some of its unique properties

like antimicrobial, antiviral,

and some of those immunity properties, if you like.

And marvellous flavours.

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.

It's unimaginable, not using garlic. That's right,

garlic. We'll go back thousands of years to ancient cultures, journey into your gut to find out

what it does, and hear why one religion thinks that eating garlic can have karmic consequences.

That's all coming up in today's program.

So now we are making ready for a mushroom withotto and we're going to put some

ground mushrooms and then we're going to make a vegetable stock of carrots.

Let's start with some wonderful aromas of sizzling garlic.

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