13 deliciously garlicky dishes for summer

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last updated 10 January 2015

Here's how you know that you're definitely not a vampire:

You start off every meal by sliding a hefty pile of minced garlic into a sauté pan full of sizzling olive oil.
There's no feeling more gratifying than when a garlic clove's skin comes off with one valiant smash of your knife.
You don't consider a piece of toasted bread "toast" or "crostini" unless its every crevice is rubbed with garlic.
You actually enjoy the fact that your fingertips smell of garlic when you go to bed after a long day of mincing, and you've never understood why garlic breath has a negative connotation.
Dishes with subtle hints of garlic — like Linguine con Vongole and Mussels Dijonnaise — are great, but dishes that make garlic the star are even better.

We've rounded up 13 dishes that feature garlic in all its different temperaments: sharp, pungent, mellow, tangy, and sweet. All you garlic fiends out there, this is for you.

Sopa de ajo (garlic soup) by Marian Bull