HIGHLY-COLOURED CUISINE

Garlic is the essential seasoning in the cuisine of Southern France.  It is the flavour of a language: the "langue d'oc".  Garlic cuisine provides a sensation of happiness and peace.

A LEGENDARY PLANT

Garlic's virtues have been abundantly illustrated in history. Pyramid builders, ancient Greek athletes and warriors throughout the ages were administered a few bulbs of the odorous herb to maximise performance and fend off diseases.

For thousands of years, Garlic has been one of the most popular medicinal herbs, in spite of the legendary myth

that Garlic will ward off vampires.

A MAGICAL PLANT

Ancient doctors have exalted garlic's virtues: Hippocrates (300BC) recommended garlic for infections, wounds, cancer, leprosy, and digestive disorders. Dioscorides praised it for its use in treating heart problems, and Pliny listed the plant in 61 remedies for a wide variety of aliments ranging from the common cold to leprosy, epilepsy and tapeworm.

Researchers have recently established that garlic is useful in combating heart attacks by preventing coronary arteries from clogging up, and that it could also prevent high blood pressure, diabetes and even weight gain...

THOUGHTFUL PRODUCERS

Thanks to consumers, to innovation, experiments and to environmental respect, the 300 producers of Lomagne are growing a highly regarded variety.  In 2004 'l'ail blanc de Lomagne" won the CCP/IGP quality label.

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