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 Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers (1980)
Director: Les Blank
&
Garlic's Pungent Presence - The Spice of Life - BBC series (1983)

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https://mediaspace.wisc.edu/media/Garlic+Is+As+Good+As+Ten+Mothers+1980/0_16kovm72/104850662

A documentary on the history of garlic. Blank interviews chefs, garlic lovers, and historians about the their love of the 'stinking rose.'

Extra garlic content: 

Garlic's Pungent Presence - The Spice of Life - BBC series (1983)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00eLTQwBH4I

#kinostr #documentary #garlic #food
#foodstr #garlicstr #documentaries #kino #fullmovies #films 
 I have no idea why Les Blank documentaries are so hard to find. 

But here is his garlic documentary🥰 🧄

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 This is one of the best documentaries I've ever watched. Yum Yum Yum is even better. 
 Extra dvd extra: 

Werner Herzog on Les Blank
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfy7JHdxsc0 
 Awesome! What garlic tastes the most Garlicky? 
 ah, the memories

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