Part of the lily or alium family, of which onions are also a member, garlic is one of the most indispensible ingredients around and plays a central role in Mediterranean and Asian cookery. A bulb composed of many individual cloves enclosed in a thin white, mauve or purple skin, it's quite fiery, pungent and crunchy when raw. As it cooks it becomes more mellow and creamy.
Note: If you are looking in the group of trees that acts as a cubby house, you are in the wrong place and anything you find is not the cache.