Possible Clues:

• Flower-bud dried as a spice yielding an essential oil
• This made tasty work for the cleaver
• Characters in revival of 'Under The Volcano' creating split
• Pungent spice clubs delight in
• Baked-ham spice
• Many adore a little garlic
• After a century you'll adore it, buddy
• A small bulb as of garlic
• Garlic hunk
• Split about nothing