Why Vampires Hate Garlic - A Transylvanian Recipe from 1580

As a Romanian, I haven't felt so offended since 1753, when I was exiled from my native village. I've never seen a vampire!

BEEF WITH GARLIC HARVESTER SAUCE 1. Call for Max Miller. 2. Tell him to "prepare the meat like I told you." 3. Drink his bourbon.

I love the way this guy writes a recipe. "Make the beef like I said. Add some garlic the same way as the last time. Ah, you know what you're doing, let's skip to the next recipe."

The phrase "in very obstinate cases of vampirism" suggest that there are also mild cases of vampirism and now I am just very curious what that looks like. I don't really tolerate garlic, suffered from insomnia pretty much since birth and recently learnt that my family roots trace back to Romania. Also, my father resembles Bela Lugosi. Funny things.

I have a friend who's hypothesis is that Dracula actually love garlic and tells people that he hates it so that way they'll season themselves for him

I wonder if Max made this episode to disprove all of the rumors about him being an immortal vampire who likes cooking dishes from his youth. Verdict is still out on whether or not he has a creepy portrait of himself in the attic.

I made this in my pressure cooker! I added paprika to the roast in honor of Dracula's Jonathan Harker and his obsession with paprika chicken. The garlic sauce is pure wonderfulness!

I’m slowly compiling my home-cooking recipes for my boys to someday inherit and I now will most definitely be including one with “cook the beef like I told you” 🤭😂

The devil''s left footsept gave us garlic, his right footstep gave us onions... and then he stopped for a leek

"Good thing you like garlic so much or we'd be worried you were a vampire." - my mother, 1993, on 16-year-old me's night-owl ways. 28 years later and some things never change. I'm still a night owl...and I still love garlicky dishes.

As a romanian, I must say that most of our recipes include garlic, it s tasty and has lots of health benefits!

The way this guy writes recipes is a whole mood

“Prepare the beef like I told you.” LOL He must have had some diary out there that says, “1,001 Things I Told You To Remember”

I should write a cookbook like the Transylvavian cook did. Page 1 - Beef Stew, Just do it like i did last friday. For reference, ask a friend of mine, we probably talked about it.

Tangentially, I once very nearly caused the family of a good friend to hate garlic, wine, and perhaps me. Several years back, my friend and her family all came down with the flu. I passed along to her that I swear by a particular variation of Gluwein for the flu. And, she agreed that she'd try it. A couple of weeks later, I asked how it worked out. I could tell that she hadn't enjoyed the recipe because her response was, "I guess I'm too Chinese to appreciate it." Of course, that's true. She and her husband are both Chinese, and make use of Chinese medicine. But, I asked her what it was that didn't appeal to her. She replied that it was the garlic. I had told her to throw "a few whole cloves" in the wine. Her husband had taken that to mean a few whole cloves of garlic. Much laughter ensued as I explained the difference.

I think another interesting connection between garlic and vampires (and the plague, for that matter) is that rats and mice hate the scent of garlic because it's so strong. If it can keep away those rodents and the diseases they bring it's not a big leap to assume it can ward off vampires as well.

Next up: Why werewolves hate silver, why Frankenstein’s Monster hates fire, and why zombies hate anyone who can move at over 3mph.

I wonder how many people realize that "The Land Beyond the Forest" is basically a completely literal translation of Transylvania.

As a proved-not-to-be-vampire romanian, I really like this episode and the effort you generally put in every dish you make. Now excuse me, it's getting dark, and the phantoms start to appear. Bless!

Wonderful recipe--can't wait to try it. Cute Count von Count impression too. The reason the Count likes to count is not because of a pun on his noble title (that belongs to Soupy Sales which you are too young to remember) but to the folk legend that if there is a vampire in the vicinity, scatter seeds or grains in his path. The vampire will be irresistibly compelled to count each seed until dawn--whereupon he'll go back to his grave or turn to dust: depending on which horror movie you've watched.