Garlic e-scapes and sun on your skin

... cooking with food treasures

This is the time of year when garlic, planted in fall and swelling into fat globes under the soil send up shoots that curl like musical notes with fat hopeful buds that wise garlic farmers, and greedy cooks, snip off. These are garlic scapes.

They will cost you a small fortune in stores and are treasures that good cooks wait for each year: first chefs wa…