Vanilla Extract

Product Description

No flavor is more romantic than the one vanilla. Sweet, floral intoxicating, poetically perfect for the fruit of a tropical orchid whose pale primrose-colored flowers must be pollinated by hand within a few hours after their blossoming. Indeed, few gems are more romantic than those produced by the sudden blooming of Tahitian vanilla, a botanically distinct variety that is both more delicate and fragrant than the far more common vanilla from Madagascar. Vanilla came originally from Central America. The conquistadors found Montezuma while drinking some vanilla-flavored chocolate and decided to send both chocolate and vanilla to their homeland. The Colonial Powers eventually established several plantations all over the East and West Indies, as well as in Africa and the Far East. Nevertheless this industry flourished only in Tahiti, and contributed to make this island very famous.