Editing Garlic (section)

====Culinary history ====
Numerous cuneiform records show that garlic has been cultivated in [[Mesopotamia]] for at least 4,000 years.<ref name="Zohary" /> The use of garlic in China and Egypt also dates back thousands of years.<ref name=Block2010 /><ref name="Zohary" /> Well-preserved garlic was found in the tomb of [[Tutankhamun]] (c. 1325 <small>BC</small>).<ref name="Zohary" /> It was consumed by ancient [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] and [[ancient Rome|Roman]] soldiers, sailors, and rural classes ([[Virgil]], ''Eclogues'' ii. 11), and, according to [[Pliny the Elder]] (''[[Pliny's Natural History|Natural History]]'' xix. 32), by the African peasantry. Garlic was placed by the ancient Greeks on the piles of stones at crossroads, as a supper for [[Hecate]] ([[Theophrastus]], ''Characters, The Superstitious Man'').<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Garlic|volume=11|pages=468–469}}</ref>

Garlic was rare in traditional [[British cuisine|English cuisine]] (though it is said to have been grown in England before 1548) but has been a common ingredient in Mediterranean Europe.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/forloveofgarlicc0000reno/page/21|title=For the Love of Garlic: The Complete Guide to Garlic Cuisine|last=Renoux|first=Victoria|date=January 1, 2005|publisher=Square One Publishers, Inc.|isbn=9780757000874|pages=[https://archive.org/details/forloveofgarlicc0000reno/page/21 21–25]}}</ref> Translations of the {{circa|lk=no|1300}} [[Assize of Weights and Measures]], an English statute generally dated to the 13th century, indicate a passage as dealing with standardized units of garlic production, sale, and taxation—the [[hundred (unit)|hundred]] of 15 [[rope (garlic)|ropes]] of 15 heads each<ref>{{Citation |title=Statutes of the Realm |volume=I |date=1810 |location=London |publisher=G. Eyre & A. Strahan |page=204}}</ref>—but the Latin version of the text may refer to [[herring]] rather than garlic.<ref name=tract>{{Citation |editor-last=Ruffhead |editor-first=Owen |editor-link=Owen Ruffhead |title=The Statutes at Large |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tKZFAAAAcAAJ |volume=&nbsp;I: From Magna Charta<!--sic--> to the End of the Reign of King Henry the Sixth. To which is prefixed, A Table of the Titles of all the Publick and Private Statutes during that Time |location=London |publisher=Mark Basket for the Crown |date=1763a |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=tKZFAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA148 148–149]}}. {{in lang|en}}&nbsp;& {{in lang|la}}&nbsp;& {{in lang|nrf}}</ref>