Show Poets and Their Garlic Homer had a sincere respect for garlic to which he attributed the estimable property of dispelling en en- With us the uie Roman poet and bishop SIdonius Apol i naris born at Lyon in and known also as Caius Calus held garlic In such contempt that he wrote Happy the nose that is never never never nev nev- er exposed to the poisonous exhalations exhalations exhalations of this plant By the same token an order of chivalry Ignoring Ignoring ing ribaldry exacted in its regulations regulations regulations regula regula- the agreement that each member should abstain from garlic and onions from January to December December December Decem Decem- ber if he valued companionship This strange order existed In Casale Cas Cas- Castile tile ale about the middle of the century and the ban on garlic garlIe and onions was said to have been placed by the king kine |