RawForLife: “In my second year of raw food, I was excited to be contacted by a journalist who wanted to write an article about me for a women’s magazine and possibly make a TV series too. He was very enthusiastic about raw, and we chatted about various things, finding lots of common ground, until…the subject of garlic came up.

“I happened to say that, after being raw for a while, I’d come to dislike the taste of garlic, and had found some information to suggest that perhaps garlic wasn’t all it was cracked up to be, and could even be something health-conscious people should be avoiding. He was shocked that I could suggest such a thing. He swore by garlic, and told me about the various ailments that garlic is said to be beneficial for.

“I did say it was a controversial area, but he appeared not to be able to entertain the concept of garlic being anything but a wonderfood. I didn’t hear from him again much after that, and I often wonder if my doubts about garlic had raised some doubts in his mind about me!”