Is your dining guest less enthusiastic about garlic than you? Don't try to convert them by force with your favorite dish loaded with garlic. Using a little less garlic can grace a dish with a subtle mystery that doesn't overpower, but rather woos the garlic fearer into a garlic lover.

To remove garlic smell from your hands when you're done cooking, cut a fresh lemon in half and squeeze the juice from half the lemon onto your hands and rub hands together. Not only are your hands free from a stale garlic smell, they radiate the lovely scent of fresh lemon.

2torial #0857: Learn2 Prepare Garlic (Continued) Part 2: Chop garlic Place the peeled clove of garlic on the chopping block. Hold the knife with one hand and the front of the blade with the other. Starting at one end of the clove move the knife up and down until you've made pieces of the desired size.   The partially chopped garlic may start to spread out away from your knife. Angle the dull edge of the knife towards the garlic, scoop it back into a pile and continue chopping.   Again, the thinner the slice, the more it will dissolve--thus adding more flavor than if you slice it thicker. Part 4