 the pasta cooked dan had me prepare some garlic using a technique that sounds tailor-made for my very particular set of skills in the kitchen what's really interesting about garlic is there's no garlic flavor in a clove until you start to damage it if you have you know just a kitchen knife you can smash the clove with the side of your knife and then run your knife through it in a couple different directions and that'll do the job the more you damage those cell walls the more destruction you essentially do the more flavor you create