and new objects to be designed, combined with his characteristic drawings, raise reader’s affection and admiration. In one of the notes, “the new machines that I have yet to design for my kitchens”, he announces his intention to develop different devices “to pluck ducks, cut pigs into small cubes, knead bread, grind meat and press sheep”. Leonardo Da Vinci Left: Garlic Press. The word for garlic press in Italian is until this day Leonardo Right: Old Garlic Press, hammering and trowing the garlic bulbs was the method used before his invention.