This chive is not meant to be eaten raw, but cook it properly and your dishes will dance. Words: Jenny Somervell Garlic chives are an edible that are definitely more garlic than chives. They look similar to ordinary chives at first glance too. But look more closely and the leaf texture is solid, flat, and rather chewy, quite different from the soft, rolled, hollow leaves of chives. Their misleading common name has led Western cooks to use garlic chives raw, with unfortunate results, and they've never taken off as an edible. It seems they need to take lessons from the