Vanilla
MAY 8, 2009 FRIDAY AT 3PM CT

 
 
Measuring it out by the teaspoonful, how many of us happen to know that vanilla actually comes from the bean pod of an orchid? Journalist Tim Ecott follows the history of vanilla from its cultivation by the Aztecs to the burgeoning of a multi-million dollar industry. It's anything but vanilla.

Guest
  • Tim Ecott, international journalist, author of Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World and Vanilla: Travels in Search of the Ice Cream Orchid.
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