When it comes to garlic, the saying “You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone,” doesn’t really resonate. I know what I’ve got in garlic – the best flavor element out there, period – and I get nervous just seeing “garlic” and “gone” in the same sentence. It ties for the top spot with olive oil, which reasserted itself as essential a cooking element as this bootleg cook knows.
1. Garlic Garlic mushrooms, garlic chicken, garlic shrimp. Thank God for Gilroy.
2. Olive Oil I honestly don’t know what I would’ve done without it.
3. Seafood It felt a little weird just eating three filets of petrale for dinner. It also tasted great.
4. Wine Monterey County: the future of wines.
5. Bacon TLC Ranch should need a special permit to peddle their glorious bacon.
6. Heirloom tomatoes For sauces, stir-fries, caprese salads and happiness.
7. Artichokes I probably ate an average of two a day. Before lunch.
8. Cheese Straus cheeses and Cowgirl Creamery out of Point Reyes are among the 150-and-in winners.
9. Eggs The free range organic eggs available from local farmers are delicious.
10. Gizdich apple juice Just try it and you’ll understand.
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