Cookbook talk:Fiddlehead-Portobello Linguine

Garlic
I changed the mention of cloves of garlic to toes (cloves) of garlic. I'm partially a Kiwi but I grew up in Malaysia. I have always referred to them as cloves. However the original author of this recipe referred to them as toes. While this is a slightly strange name for me, unless there is any specific style policy that requires us to refer to them as cloves, I don't see any reason not to respect the original authors name in this case. It would help if the person who changed the name from toes to cloves had a more respectable history. However Eadmund history shows he/she embarked on a thankfully short-lived crusade to change recipes to a style he/she preferred. While some of these changes we helpful or didn't really create any difference, his/her most disruptive changes included removing or replacing any metric measurements and removing the F for Fahrenheit from temperatures. He/she also changed Tablespoon etc to Tbsp. Although this was also a style change, I feel it was fairly neutral and didn't make any significant difference. But since the original author apparently preferred toes of garlic, I feel this is a style we should respect. BTW, is toes the common way to refer to cloves of garlic by Americans? Nil Einne 13:35, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Hi, a little late to this discussion, but toes of garlic instead of cloves is common in the part of Louisiana where I grew up. Not sure if it's local just to New Orleans, Louisiana, or the broader Southern U.S. That said, as the original author, I'm okay with the use of cloves instead of toes in the recipe. tcr25 (discuss • contribs) 17:26, 3 April 2020 (UTC)