This thread caught my eye. I also like garlic but to take a tangent on the OP, when my wife was preggers with our son, she developed an allergy to garlic. Since then, we have modified our spice selections at home and have discovered so many other great tastes that garlic masks. We have learned that garlic is the most overused spice in restaurants. The initial reaction from most is shock about how we can actually live and function without it but I will respond that once you learn how to cook without it, you realize what an amazing world of spices that exist out there!