Do you like garlic?
Description
It makes our food tasty and our breath smelly, but what are some of the other uses of garlic...? Apart from warding off vampires, of course! Neil and Beth discuss this and teach you some new vocabulary.
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This episode was very interesting, in fact, I had no idea of how an ingredient as Garlic can be different meanings for example INDIA
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