If you're an avid baker, or just a fan of sweet treats, there's a good chance a bottle of vanilla extract or vanilla powder is sitting in your cupboard. But have you ever thought about where your ...

In Papantla, vanilla used to dominate daily life and helped Mexico becoming the world's leading supplier of the aromatic spice more than a century ago. The rise of artificial vanilla contributed to ...

Which country is known as the Land of Vanilla? Discover why Madagascar holds this title, its dominance in global vanilla ...

Vanilla comes from a rare tropical orchid with a one-day bloom and a history rooted in Aztec cultivation and 19th-century ...

After a 2002 cyclone devastated Tonga, an archipelago in the South Pacific, some New Zealanders started a vanilla farm there to help the get the country back on its feet. Despite a setback from a ...

Most of us don’t give vanilla a second thought. Many people think of vanilla as a very “plain” flavor. But in fact, vanilla has a past that is anything but plain. Vanilla extract comes from the fruit ...

Long gone are the days when heaps of green vanilla pods were drawn into town by mules and laid out on woven mats to dry in the sun, perfuming the streets before being packed up and sold abroad. In ...