One of the most important ingredients in all of the culinary arts, garlic nevertheless seems to defy or transcend, attempts to define it in any but the most literal of terms. In that sense, then, garlic, like onions, shallots, and leeks, is a member of the lily family. Intensely and uniquely flavorful and aromatic, garlic is used in virtually every cuisine in the world, including nearly every form of Asian, European, African, Latin American and North American cooking.
Mediterranean Climate. a subtropical climate with hot dry summers and mild rainy winters. It occurs in the countries of the Mediterranean region; in the USSR such a climate is found on the Southern Crimean Shore and along the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus northwest of Tuapse.
The  Mediterranean climate is also called the Dry summer-subtropical  climate. Many locations with a such climate have an abudant  sunshine duration (usually above 2 500 hours) year-round but  especially in summer where cloudy days are almost non-existant but  even in winter during the wet season.n Europe and northern Africa, the Mediterranean climate is defined by the subtropical Mediterranean Sea, which is well north of the equator (30Â° to 45Â° N latitude).