The recipe for toum contains only garlic, salt, lemon juice, and olive oil. It’s as thick and creamy as mayonnaise and improves everything it touches. But before it’s time for toum, we have to discuss the task at hand: It’s time to plant the garlic.
Select Your Garlic
Autumn isn’t the usual time for planting, but garlic is the exception. As the frost prepares to blanket the garden, garlic growers in the north are tucking in their cloves beneath layers of insulating mulch. (In warmer, frost-free zones, the deadline isn’t as tight, but it still has to happen before the winter solstice.)…