Vanilla: History of an Extraordinary Bean - Eric T. Jennings Travel Luciano Kruk

Luciano Kruk

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Vanilla: History of an Extraordinary Bean - Eric T. Jennings Travel Luciano KrukVanilla is one of the most expensive of flavoringsso valuable that it was smuggled or stolen by pirates in the early daysand yet it is everywhere. It is a key ingredient in dishes ranging from crme brle to Japanese purin. It is the quintessential ice cream flavor in the United States. Eric T. Jennings explains how the worlds only edible orchid, originally endemic to Central America, became embedded in the international culinary and cultural landscape.