Dubbed the "Garlic Festival" by Americans

Sigonellans call this the Garlic Festival because the Saint's Day dovetails with the garlic harvest in Sicily, and this extremely aromatic garlic is so fragrant and potent like no other.



While garlic bulbs are sold in woven vines, it's not a garlic festival in the sense of a commercial enterprise where celebrity chefs and restaurants erect street booths and sell samples their favorite garlic recipes.

These are salt-of-the-earth farmers in Sicily sharing their harvest.





Here’s the same garlic guy different day. I like this photo because you can see how huge the bulb is overhead in comparison to his head!