Garlic bread
{{Short description|Bread topped with garlic and olive oil or butter}}
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{{Infobox prepared food
| name = Garlic bread
| image = garlicbread.jpg
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| caption = A common variation of garlic bread
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| country = United States
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| creator =
| course = Entrée or side dish
| type = Bread
| served =
| main_ingredient = Bread (typically baguette), garlic, herbs, olive oil or butter
| variations = Cheesy garlic bread, garlic knots, garlic bread pizza, tomato bread
}}
Garlic bread (also called garlic toast){{cite book | last1=Flay | first1=B. | last2=Banyas | first2=S. | last3=Jackson | first3=S. | title=Bobby Flay's Bar Americain Cookbook: Celebrate America's Great Flavors | publisher=Clarkson Potter | year=2011 | isbn=978-0-307-46138-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U7iozqKGMx0C&pg=PT109 | page=109}} consists of bread (usually baguette, sourdough or ciabatta) topped with garlic and occasionally olive oil or butter, and may include additional herbs, such as oregano or chives.{{cite book | last1=Bastianich | first1=L.M. | last2=Manuali | first2=T.B. | title=Lidia's Italy in America | publisher=Knopf | year=2011 | isbn=978-0-307-59567-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FX4zX7oWnRIC&pg=PA30 | access-date=2 October 2018 | page=30}} It is then either grilled until toasted or baked in a conventional or bread oven.
Garlic bread is typically made using a baguette, or sometimes ciabatta which is partially sliced downwards, allowing the condiments to soak into the loaf while keeping it in one piece. The bread is then stuffed through the cuts with oil and minced garlic before baking. Alternatively, butter and garlic powder are used, or the bread is cut lengthwise into separate slices which are individually garnished.
History
Garlic bread stems from bruschetta,Virbila, S. Irene (20 December 1987) [https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/20/travel/fare-of-the-country-italy-s-original-garlic-bread.html FARE OF THE COUNTRY; Italy's Original Garlic Bread]. New York Times.{{cite book|author=Raichlen, Steven |title=Man Made Meals: The Essential Cookbook for Guys|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tHYxAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA511|date=2014|publisher=Workman Publishing Company|isbn=978-0-7611-6644-3|pages=511–}} which appeared in Italy around the 15th century, and can be traced back to ancient Rome.{{cite web | url=https://factslegend.org/11-facts-bruschetta/ | title=11 Interesting Facts About Bruschetta | author=Sankalan Baidya | date=17 April 2014 | access-date=13 March 2018 | archive-date=13 March 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180313155127/https://factslegend.org/11-facts-bruschetta/ | url-status=dead }}
Contemporary garlic bread originated in the United States and it is a typical Italian-American dish.{{cite web | url=https://foodtimeline.org/foodbreads.html#garlicbread | title=American-style Garlic Bread | author=Food Timeline | access-date=21 December 2023}} Garlic bread may have originated after Italian immigrants started to use butter as a substitute for olive oil, which was uncommon in the United States in the first half of the 20th century.
Europe
In France, it was common in Provence, where it was called chapon and served with salad.de Denus, André Rolland (1885) Les Anciennes Provinces de la France, études étymologiques & onomatologiques sur leur nom et celui de leurs habitants, É. Lechevalier. It was also prepared in other regions, such as Quercy, as a crust of bread rubbed with garlic and spiced with a pinch of salt along with a drop of walnut oil.{{cite book|author=Goudall, Louis |title=Le Martyr des Chaumelles|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_UOQ5AAAAcAAJ|year=1858|publisher=L. Hachette|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_UOQ5AAAAcAAJ/page/n61 52]–53}}
In England, butter is used instead of olive oil in garlic bread.{{cite book|author=Gilroy Garlic Festival Committee|title=The Garlic Lovers' Cookbook: From Gilroy, Garlic Capital of the World|url=https://archive.org/details/garlicloverscook00gilr|url-access=registration|year=1982|publisher=Celestial Arts|isbn=978-0-89087-272-7|page=[https://archive.org/details/garlicloverscook00gilr/page/61 61]}}
In Lithuania, kepta duona is a fried bread dish involving black rye bread that has been rubbed with garlic.https://www.tasteatlas.com/kepta-duona It is often eaten as a bar snack.https://www.tasteatlas.com/kepta-duona
North America
In the United States, garlic bread has been on the menu of many restaurants since at least the 1950s, often paired with pasta dishes.{{cite book|author=Adema, Pauline |title=Garlic Capital of the World: Gilroy, Garlic, and the Making of a Festive Foodscape|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CyGFNxsAMpwC&pg=PA55|date=2010|publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi|isbn=978-1-60473-333-4|pages=55–}} Commercially manufactured frozen garlic bread was developed in the 1970s by Cole's Quality Foods in Muskegon, Michigan.{{Cite web |url=http://www.coles.com/company/ |title=Cole's - Home of the Original Frozen Garlic Bread |access-date=25 January 2011 |archive-date=29 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101229100501/http://www.coles.com/company/ |url-status=dead }} Garlic knots, a variant invented in the 1940s in Brooklyn, New York City, are commonly served at many pizzerias as appetizers.Delicious Homemade Pizza Start to Finish: Pizzas, Calzones, Pizza Rolls, and Garlic Knots. Tom Carroll, Ben Carroll. p. 117. ASIN: B07XJGJHWS.{{cite web | url=https://spoilednyc.com/garlic-knots-history-origin-nyc/ | title=Where else but NYC, Amirite? The Obscure History and Origin of Garlic Knots 🤑🍞 | date=20 January 2018 }}
Texas toast is a form of garlic bread developed in Texas in the 1940s and served as a side to southern-style dishes.{{cite web|title=Oak Cliff Trivia (The first Pig Stand)|url=http://www.oakcliff.com/oak_cliff_trivia.htm|work=oakcliff.com|publisher=Alan C. Elliott|accessdate=4 June 2012|author=Alan C. Elliott}}[https://web.archive.org/web/20090215035444/http://www.rbbq.net/friday.htm R - Bar B Que]
See also
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References
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External links
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{{Cookbook|Garlic Bread}}
- [http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe.php?id=164&title=Parmesan+Garlic+Bread Cooking For Engineers: Parmesan Garlic Bread] – a simple recipe with step-by-step photographs
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