Love this, and your treatment of the framing gives an old-world feel to the pair, glad you posted it this way. I think that we should have a garlic project much like the egg project so we could see how everyone would shoot garlic, we all have it in our homes (I like mine on pizza, and in mashed potatoes). I would love to see this bigger and think it would make a wonderful poster for a kitchen or an Italian restaurant, really big on the wall. You have a very nice bunch of images in your portfolio, b/w is so much fun. I think you could shoot color well, too. Do you develop your own prints?
I think I would like them grainier and greyer - it seems you had posted a shot of garlic before and I remember I liked the balance of it much better. Will look now...