So it's a normal Wednesday night and you're making pasta. You're sauteing a few cloves of chopped garlic when the phone rings or your dog/partner/roommate needs attention. You lower the heat and get distracted for a bit, leaving the garlic unattended in the pan. When you get back to the kitchen, something weird has happened: the garlic is now a mysterious shade of blue-green. While it may seem your garlic has fallen prey to a type of botched science experiment typically reserved for comic-book characters, there's a perfectly reasonable chemical reaction at play. Read more... |