Vanilla got a bad rap somewhere along the way. It became a synonym for plain, bland or ordinary. Yet vanilla may be the world's most exotic spice and most alluring scent. That means it's also ...

Trace back the history of vanilla and you learn that in Central America, it was first used by the Totonac Indians in their rituals. When the Aztecs took over, they discovered the magic of vanilla and ...

Let's start with a spice quiz. One is a bean discovered in Mexico. One's a tree native to India. One's the seed of a fruit discovered in Indonesia. Today vanilla, cinnamon and nutmeg can all be found ...

Many mass produced foods, from ice cream to milk shakes to soy milk, are usually flavoured with artificial vanilla -- but the real organic stuff is still very expensive and sought-after — Menahem ...

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 ...

In his busy Tel Aviv restaurant, chef Yair Yosefi adds a magic ingredient to his signature cake: Israel’s first commercially produced vanilla providing what devotees claim is perhaps the strongest ...