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Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
Film / 1980

Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers

Directed by Les Blank
Documentary

★ 7.5/10Audience rating

A zesty paean of praise to the greater glories of garlic. This lip-smacking foray into the history, consumption, cultivation and culinary/curative powers of the stinking rose features chef Alice Waters of Chez Panisse, and a flavorful musical soundtrack. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1999.

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A zesty paean of praise to the greater glories of garlic. This lip-smacking foray into the history, consumption, cultivation and culinary/curative powers of the stinking rose features chef Alice Waters of Chez Panisse, and a flavorful musical soundtrack. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1999.

Cast

Alice WatersSelf - Chez Panisse Restaurant, Berkeley Werner HerzogSelf - Film Director: Nosferatu Harrod BlankSelf - Youth Saved From Dysentery Michael GoodwinSelf - Interviewer, Recordist, Writer, Garlic Peeler Christopher PrayNarrator (voice)

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