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I'm meal and i'm death
It smells delicious sizzling and oil
And it's great for keeping vamppes away
But don't eat it on cooking
I'm talking of course about garlic
Because il do you like garlic or yes i love garlic
I had a very gallochy meal last night um an american smell it from here
Here is jason chain in australian
Chef whose specializes in asian cuisine and paul
Eric k ensen a dana chef living in france
Talking about that love of garlic to bbc world alth of program the food jane i love garlic
Because it's a very sotile inggradient
I can be used for cooking and office various health benefits
It we used it a lot so so from stocvamshops and in vegetable dishes
Meat dishes
There is very certain grol of garlic again someice
Because it's unmaggible not using lilic jason loves garlic
Because it's versatile meaning it can be used in many different ways and paul things cooking without garlic is unimaginable meaning it's difficult to commagm
Because it would be so bad love garlic or hate it in this episode
Will be finding out more about this versatile strong commalisfood and as usual will be learning some useful new words and phrases
As well and remember you can find all the vocabulary from this episode on our website
Bbb lelearning english dot com now bad they have a question for you
It's a little known fact and of the six hundred varieties of garlic
Many grew only in the former soviet union and where unavitable in the west
Until the full of communism ein nineteen
Ninety so which of the following varieties of garlic grew in the former ussr is it a rock
Bbl be in w only or c risig
Oh
I have no idea
I'm going to guess fire
Okay
Well find out
If you're right at the end of the program
Garlic is much more than just a cooking ingredient for centuries
Garlic was an important food throughout ancient
Egypt
Greece and rome
As well as india for chstance
It was the roman empire
That brought garlic to european countries like france and everywhere
Garlic grew it was praised for its health giving powers
Here
B bc presented rommela desscriptor asks author and alliexexpert
Robin
Cherry about garliics medicinal uses on bb c well services
The food chain on what kind of mednesis or conditions with they have treated for instance everything from cancer sciry
The plague respatory almones
It was uhis ealgic
Garlic was used to treat reiriratory elements
And
And element is another word for an illness or minor health problem
So a reiriratory element is an illness of the lungs in agent garlic grew was also used as an affradzsiac a food or drink believed to increase sexual desire
But interestingly
This was the reasreason
Why cultures avoided eating garlic altogether including a religious group from india called janes
Yes
Janism is an ancient indian religion
Like hindhism and hddism based on the idea of hmza or non violence
But unlike many hindus and buddhijjes definition of non violence includes plants and vegetables
James don't eat garlic because uprooting the plant kills both it and the soil ecosystem echoisin here's onnow that a mumbai based cooking show host an author of many books on indian cuisine acplaining another reason
Why janes avoided garlic to bbc world service prolim the food chain
According to hinduism like ganlic s considered food
Food which is quite a thansick food
It is believed to stimulate zyre fashion aggression
And that's why the abstestein from eating those kinds of food
Because it is believed to impact your viitual growth
And also your mental graarity
James abstained from eating garlic
If you abstained from doing something you choose not to do it for example
You might abstained from tobacco or alcohol
Because you know that bad for your health like the ancient greeks
James beliebelieve the garlic stimulate sexual desire
The verb to stimulate means encourage it or cause it to develop and grow modern medicine has confirmed some of these ancient beliefs about the health benefits of garlic including reduced blood pressure and better good health
Okay
Nail isn't it time you revealed the answer to your question
If best i ask you
Which variety of garlic grew in the former ussr
And i said fire was i right you
You absolutely tely correct fire or george
And fire is a hot white garlic from the republic of georgia in the former surviet union
Okay
Let's recap the vocabulary
We've learned starting with versatile and adjective tive meaning to have many different gurposes or uses the phrase
It's unimaginable is used to say that something undifficult to imagine
Because it would be so good or so bad
An element is an illness or health problem
And if a dizzac is a fior drink belieif then increase sexual decore
If you obstain from something
You choose not to do it
And finally to stimulate means to encourage something or cause it to grow once again are six minutes
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