“Can you smell the garlic?”Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers (Les Blank, 1980)
Dec
12
National 12 Hour Fresh Breath Day
Three representatives of the garlic festival. Their tees read: THE GARLIC TO SHARE WITH A FRIEND, MINE DOESN'T STINK, and WE LEAVE YOU BREATHLESS. DP: Les Blank.
… for keeping the girls away.
“When he shows the 1978 film Always for Pleasure, about the food, music and indigenous culture of New Orleans, [Les Blank] has been known to whip up a pot of red beans and rice in the back of the theatre. [cont. below]
– Alice Waters. During screenings, the audience would reply with “YES!”
“At presentations […] Blank can occasionally be spied tossing several heads of garlic into a toaster oven so that the aroma wafts over the audience at just the right mouth-watering moment.” (via)