Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers

1980·51'

Les Blank

Documentary

EN - English

Letterboxd TMDB #85642

A zesty paean of praise to the greater glories of garlic. This lip-smacking foray into the history, consumption, cultivation and culinary/curative powers of the stinking rose features chef Alice Waters of Chez Panisse, and a flavorful musical soundtrack. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1999.

Cast

Alice Waters Self - Chez Panisse Restaurant, Berkeley Werner Herzog Self - Film Director: Nosferatu Harrod Blank Self - Youth Saved From Dysentery

Michael Goodwin Self - Interviewer, Recordist, Writer, Garlic Peeler

Christopher Pray Narrator (voice)